If No Deferred Recruitment, What's A Good Alternative?

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

How do the other sororities feel about moving away from deferred?

It seems to me that recruiting first semester freshman is beneficial for the fraternities on your campus but not the sororities. Couldn't your Panhellenic simply choose not to recruit in the fall? This would, of course, be something that all of the sororities would have to agree upon, but it could work out for your campus climate.

As to the supplemental new member ed. I think its unrealistic to have this be more than a one-time Saturday afternoon seminar. Would this happen in the Spring as well, or just the Fall? Also, since this is so you can recruit first semester freshman, shouldn't first semester freshman be the only people required to attend?

I honestly don't know what the overall feeling is about this whole thing. But I think that where all of the chapters have struggled so much for numbers, they're seeing it as being beneficial. But with recruitment numbers going up recently (for the sororities), I'm not sure.

IFC actually made this whole thing happen, and Panhellenic voted (about a year and a half ago) to support their decision and encourage them to start the process of trying to get deferred recruitment done away with. I'm not sure if they realize that IFC and Panhellenic are two completely different entities and each can choose to do things on their own. So.. 1.) I'm confused as to why Panhellenic was asked to approve this, 2.) I'm not sure if they know that one group can have deferred recruitment while the other doesn't, and 3.) Neither group has yet to vote on this supplemental new member program, and it seems to me as if it's just being.. throw in there, so to speak, as an "amendment" to a vote that occurred more than a year ago.

The supplemental new member program would happen in both the fall and the spring. There are new students who start school in January, so they would have to do it both semesters.

And if you were only to have first semester freshmen go through this extra program, it would be like you were singling them out. There's no way that would fly with the national organization... AST's, at least... and I'm guessing the same would go for the others.