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Originally Posted by DGTess
What's not my issue is that others can't see other ways to handle rush. Status quo is always easier.
Other ways?
Look at the fraternity systems.
Only informal rush. Bids when the sisterhood feels ready.
Get Panhellenic out of rush, or use them as administrators.
Postpone rush until spring semester, when women have become familiar with campus and the various houses.
Look at sororities that don't participate in formal rush. Select some of their methods - application, grades, etc.
Most likely ome combination of these. There are hundreds of ideas, some of which would work on some campuses but not on others.
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Actually, there have been several threads on here about the 4 different styles of rush, and NPC recommends that if an old-style formal rush isn't working for your campus, to change it to one of the three more relaxed styles. My campus just did this. There are also MANY schools that have deferred rush.
Only informal rush sounds good in theory, but at some point you have to get a pledge class together, unless of course, you just want to give them their pins and initiate them. You can have a second class, but like I said, at some point it has to become a group. Plus, the other thing about all informal that can really blow is that if there's no Panhellenic scheduling, too often the sororities have their parties on the same day at the same time. Maybe a girl would like to check out all the groups, but she can't because of time constraints, so she's forced into choosing before she even has a chance to meet the members. Our school did this (and first semester freshmen were allowed to rush at the time). It was horrible.
No one has ever said on here that there's only one way to do rush - anyone who is on GC for more than 5 minutes knows that's not the case. What is prompting the negative remarks is your attitude toward any sort of Panhellenic presence. Maybe at CMU everyone in sororities was happy and got along and you all loved each other and didn't really need Panhel for everyone to play fair, but it ISN'T that way everywhere. Just because I do not need snow boots in Florida doesn't mean the girl in Vermont doesn't need them either.
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