A Very Untraditional Recruitment/Expansion Story

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Sorry for the delay... but I'm back and ready to talk about Mustard...

We had all been waiting impatiently for Mustard. We thought that they were going to be amazing!

They had set their materials up in our downstairs area, like Relish had, and we waited upstairs while they were getting ready. We came downstairs and sat in the chairs facing the projector screen set up at the back of the house. We settled in, and the presentation began. The first presenter introduced everyone, including her husband, who she had "brought along to operate the projector." You CANNOT say that to a room full of Carnegie Mellon women in any situation!

Each presenter read their presentation straight off of their note cards. There was hardly any enthusiasm or excitement at all. Time for questions came after that. They didn't seem to happy with some of our questions. The transition ceremony that we wanted to do was not a happy topic, and the members of Mustard instead said that we should invite everyone to come back for the chapter's installation. We also wouldn't get much input at all into the other women who would join us as the chartering members. They also said that in four or five years, most people wouldn't really be aware of the local that had existed, as all members would be only Mustards and not Zetas as well.

This was extremely depressing for us to hear. We were all very upset that our favorite on paper hadn't come through. Our chapter advisor compared the situation to an episode in season 6 of Friends, where the character of Richard Burke tells Monica that he would be willing to have children if it meant he could be with Monica--Mustard would be willing to take us if it meant that they could have a chapter at Carnegie Mellon. We could tell that they did really want to have this colony... they even had an advisory board and a housing board all set up and ready to go for when we chose Mustard!

We still had one more presentation to go, though, and many people really liked Ketchup...