Washington and Lee Recruitment...what is it like?

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Originally Posted by alum

How do you think it will play for ADPi to not have a gorgeous house in which to host rush as compared to the other groups? What's an equivalent place they could use that's in reasonable proximity for Rounds? If I'm matching dates correctly, those houses weren't built during the 2 previous expansions and I could see that being a big deal.

I think I've said this elsewhere, but I don't really think it will hurt them at all to not have a house the first year if it's known for sure to PNMs that there will be a house in the near future. That was the main reason expansion failed when they attempted it my senior year - there were no funds allocated for a 6th house (W&L insists on owning & building all the houses) and the sororities selected realized it would be fruitless to colonize without a house on the way.

The problem is definitely what is the equivalent place they could use. I am guessing they will do it in the Commons as it's just over the Cadaver bridge. The law school is also close but I don't think they have any appropriate spaces. The other option would be somewhere in the gyms, which are just over the Sorority bridge. But for some reason I think it will almost certainly be the Commons. (For the non W&Lers, the sorority houses are located beside the football field and law school, separated from the rest of the campus but two bridges over a large ravine.)

The houses opened in Fall 2000, so that did not affect colonization for Pi Phi ('92) and KD ('97). Recruitment was formerly held in the University Center (the building connected to and beside the old Dining Hall, don't know what it is now called, I think it was renamed). Catering is in there now and I believe the Counseling Center is still there as well. Recruitment then was considerably more frilly and houses papered the walls/floors of the rooms completely with these huge murals and used way more decoration. Most of those rooms are now used for catering/the W&L business office though. It's also pretty far from the sorority houses.

According to what I've heard, the ADPi house is on track to be built for the beginning of the 2009-2010 schoolyear. At least that's what I've heard. So that would mean potentially 2 recruitments for ADPi sans a house.

The nice part of that is that ADPi members will get a lot of input into what they'd like in their house. The house will be on the far side of Kappa, closest to the Sorority bridge. Its address will 12 Frank Parsons Way.