WaterChild's Fall 2007 Recruitment

[SWTXBelle]

VandalSquirrel - please don't take a discussion of the cellphone policy personally. Debating the merits of different policies is part of the game, no matter which campus uses them. I do think Panhellenic should be upfront about the policy, so no one is surprised. If I called my daughter for several days on her personal cell phone and received no answer I would PANIC.
Did the collegians really ask for this, or did it come from the college? And do you think it helps? Do you think there is less "tent talk"? And do the pnms who are now pledges think it was a good idea? If it is a new policy, it is probably under scrutiny. You indicate you think it is "strange and crazy" - so that said, do you think your campus will continue with it?
And for what it is worth, back in the day rushees found phones to use, even when the ones in the dorms were turned off . . .

Can't wait for the next installment . . .

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

I would think that if a PNM's family needed to get a hold of her in the event of an emergency, they'd have the phone number of a Rho Gamma or RA, knowing that they won't have their cell phones, and vice versa, someone in charge would be able to notify the PNM's family if she had an emergency.

She stated that the PNM weren't aware this would be happening, so unless the parents were made aware of it before and told not to go ahead and tell their kids, I don't see how that would be possible.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

VandalSquirrel - please don't take a discussion of the cellphone policy personally. Debating the merits of different policies is part of the game, no matter which campus uses them. I do think Panhellenic should be upfront about the policy, so no one is surprised. If I called my daughter for several days on her personal cell phone and received no answer I would PANIC.

I second that. I would feel the same way.

Just last week my mom tried calling my lil brother on several occasions throughout the span of a week and received no answer, nor did he call her back. She FREAKED OUT. She finally found the number to a friend of his to check up on him at his apt to make sure he was OK because she was really worried and he lives far from home.

It turned out he was fine, just lost his cell phone and later found it in his truck.

If Panhellenic is going to do this, they need to inform the pnms AND the parents in advance in case of an emergency.

And maybe this was already mentioned and I missed it, but how do they restrict internet access? Do they take away their laptops or make them move into dorms without ethernet cables or something?

Anyway, good story so far.

[FSUZeta]

agree with the other moms. i would have been in a panic if it had not heard from my child in a week and did not know that their phone had been confisctaed. i would think that taking the phones away might had increased the tent talk, since the pnms only had each other to share observations with.

[WaterChild]

My Rho Chi woke me up somewhere close to three am and handed me my schedule. I was excited to see that my schedule read:

Phish Food
Everything But The…

I hadn’t been cut! Finally, I had a full schedule.

Roommate and I woke up early to get extra pretty for the preference parties. I wore a white strapless dress covered with giant yellow polka dots, vintage from the 80s. It sounds terrible, but it’s actually an amazing dress. During breakfast, a girl in my recruitment group that I had become quite close with and I discovered that we had identical schedules for the day.

Phish Food- The girl from home met me at the door! We had a long chat about the principles of Phish Food. I told her that I was certain that I could live up to them. The ceremony was beautiful, and I was close to tears. After I left, I was pretty sure that Phish Food was the house for me, but I still had one party to go.

Everything But The…- Here, I was put with a girl who I had never met before. This disappointed me. We got along great, though. She reminded me a lot of Mandy Moore. I had a fantastic time at this preference party as well. I also found the ceremony here to be beautiful.

At the end of the day, everyone headed back to rank. I wasn’t sure what to do. There was just one member in particular at Phish Food that I loved, but I got along really well with a lot of the Everything But The…s. Both of the houses were homey to me. I actually liked the idea of the smaller numbers of the Everything But The…s because I felt that the sisterhood might be tighter. I thought about the national sorority and everything that the groups stand for. Eventually, I decided that the ideals of Phish Food were really the ideals that I wanted to live up to as a person. I also considered that I felt more strongly about the organizations that the Phish Foods support through philanthropy.

I told the Rho Chi at the computer:

1. Phish Food
2. Everything But The…

My Rho Chis told us that they would only wake us up in the middle of the night if we did NOT receive a bid.