UF rush

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by SECdomination

I was speaking about the same type of situation that jwright25 was. During the earlier part of summer term (07 actually), I was in one sorority house that had posters for certain girls hanging all over the walls. They had a huge picture with their hometown, high school, activities, interests, and girls they knew in the sorority listed. It looked really intense.

And I've seen girls memorizing PNM flashcards during the summer months in Gainesville.

Posters and related activities like you are describing are controlled by panhellenic at U of A and are only allowed up during work week when the house is closed to the public. At Gainsville, I wonder if recs are available for scrutiny during the summer or are actives just lobbying for their top pnm's among members...just curious. Are the sorority houses open in the summer?

And you are right, no matter what, it is very intense!

[jwright25]

Originally Posted by gee_ess

Posters and related activities like you are describing are controlled by panhellenic at U of A and are only allowed up during work week when the house is closed to the public.

In my opinion and interpretation of membership selection, how a chapter wishes to get to know PNMs and review recommendations is a matter of individual chapter policy and shouldn't be regulated by Panhellenic. Now - if the houses are open to incoming students during Orientation sessions, etc., I can understand the expectation that these items would not be on open display. But to tell chapters that they can't make posters, lists, have review sessions, etc. until a certain time just seems a bit too controlling.

What is the reasoning behind this? Again, I might be misunderstanding you as above. I had no idea that Panhellenic would try to control this, as it is not the case on the campuses (including SEC) that I have worked with....

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by jwright25

In my opinion and interpretation of membership selection, how a chapter wishes to get to know PNMs and review recommendations is a matter of individual chapter policy and shouldn't be regulated by Panhellenic. Now - if the houses are open to incoming students during Orientation sessions, etc., I can understand the expectation that these items would not be on open display. But to tell chapters that they can't make posters, lists, have review sessions, etc. until a certain time just seems a bit too controlling.

What is the reasoning behind this? Again, I might be misunderstanding you as above. I had no idea that Panhellenic would try to control this, as it is not the case on the campuses (including SEC) that I have worked with....

I just checked the campus Pan rules before responding to be sure I was correct and the rule is "no posters may be on display anywhere (including chapter room) at any time except work week and must be taken down by 5:00 before the day of round 1."

I am not really sure why they have a poster rule, except that hearing from an above post that a frat boy was in a sorority house and was able to see who was being recruited and, conversely, who wasn't, could be a real problem...

the local panhellenic has some very rigid and narrow rules...I have posted elsewhere in other threads that one crazy rule is "every sorority woman must touch the door sill plate with her foot as she greets and exits a pnm from the house." I imagine the very competitive nature of U of A recruitment has been the impetus for some of these crazy rules...here's another I just remembered: sororities must hang the same banner (king bed sheet size only) from the house all during recruitment week. No frills can go a little overboad, imo. I don't think that different banners for each round is hard on any of the groups