Local Recruitment

[PhoenixAzul]

Apparently, Otterbein (all locals) is doing something different this year. They're having a fall recruitment for upper classwomen and for interested freshmen. Now, to make this more confusing...there will be house tours in fall quarter. Upper classwomen and independent sophomores (sophomores who have rushed and chose not to affiliate with a sorority or dropped from recruitment) may be given bids. However, for freshmen women, this is a "get to know you" exercise, where they will be allowed to tour the house, but cannot be extended a bid.

(still with me?)

Add to this the fact that not all sororities will be taking a class during fall quarter. 3 chapters (including my own) took pledge classes in Winter and Spring. Taking a class this quarter would be 3 straight quarters of nothing but pledging/rush, and I don't know if the chapters can handle that sort of stress, especially because Formal rush happens in Winter quarter, which would be 4 straight quarters of rush/pledging, and no time to be a "chapter" as a whole. I'm kinda fascinated to see how this whole thing plays out, who takes girls who doesn't, or if the campus even responds to it.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

Apparently, Otterbein (all locals) is doing something different this year. They're having a fall recruitment for upper classwomen and for interested freshmen. Now, to make this more confusing...there will be house tours in fall quarter. Upper classwomen and independent sophomores (sophomores who have rushed and chose not to affiliate with a sorority or dropped from recruitment) may be given bids. However, for freshmen women, this is a "get to know you" exercise, where they will be allowed to tour the house, but cannot be extended a bid.

(still with me?)

Add to this the fact that not all sororities will be taking a class during fall quarter. 3 chapters (including my own) took pledge classes in Winter and Spring. Taking a class this quarter would be 3 straight quarters of nothing but pledging/rush, and I don't know if the chapters can handle that sort of stress, especially because Formal rush happens in Winter quarter, which would be 4 straight quarters of rush/pledging, and no time to be a "chapter" as a whole. I'm kinda fascinated to see how this whole thing plays out, who takes girls who doesn't, or if the campus even responds to it.

Even if you aren't extending bids, it would probably be in your group's best interest to participate in the event so the freshmen will know you exist. It would not be pleasant when you do extend bids if no one took you seriously because they'd met all the "real" sororities in the fall.

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Even if you aren't extending bids, it would probably be in your group's best interest to participate in the event so the freshmen will know you exist. It would not be pleasant when you do extend bids if no one took you seriously because they'd met all the "real" sororities in the fall.

Nonono, we're all required to participate in the Fall Open House (what I think Panhel is calling it), and we see the benefit in it, for sure. But in terms of my own chapter, I'm not sure if our resources could be stretched to do pledging four quarters in the row. If we do happen to encounter some upper classmen or freshmen during this fall round that would be good potential sisters, hopefully we can convince them to come to recruitment events in winter, when formal happens. The upper classmen wouldn't be required to sign up for formal, we can invite them "off quota", the freshmen would have to do the whole thing again.

In addition, we've finally instituted a ceiling. I think it may be 65? With all of the "out of formal" recruitment going on, it is the only way to keep the big from getting bigger and the small from getting smaller. But again, being locals, there's no real "push" to take quota..yeah its good, but our alumn associations (well, at least mine) doesn't really give a hoot if you take quota or not, as long as at least one girl is pledging.

[ZetaXiDelta]

16 girls showed up! Pretty good considering it's our first semester on campus and we only advertised on Facebook and Myspace, lol.

Rush week begins on Monday and will go until Friday, with Wednesday off.

Yay for Zeta!

[OmegaPDPrez]

well we ended up changing our minds about doing recruitment for the sheer fact that its tough to advertise on a campus that will not allow you to advertise. So we are now going to continue with an information session, and then based on that give invitations to women who decided to participate in our plegde process.

BTW its nice to hear about the success of the other locals out there. Hope everthing continues to keeping rolling smoothly.!!!!!