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

[alphagamgirl06]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

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?

I am not sure what the fraternity/ sorority relationships are like at PSB but that would not work for my school. We have found that girls are easily influenced by boys. Have fraternity recruitment in the fall allows guys a chance to learn all about their fraternities relationship with each different sorority and the stereotypes, giving them more information to tell their girlsfriend etc. We have this issue big time and our recruitments are only a week or two apart. That why we had to go to sorority recruitment is always first.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by alphagamgirl06

I am not sure what the fraternity/ sorority relationships are like at PSB but that would not work for my school. We have found that girls are easily influenced by boys. Have fraternity recruitment in the fall allows guys a chance to learn all about their fraternities relationship with each different sorority and the stereotypes, giving them more information to tell their girlsfriend etc. We have this issue big time and our recruitments are only a week or two apart. That why we had to go to sorority recruitment is always first.

And the other side of the coin is....the guys join fraternities, get to actually KNOW the women in the Greek system and advise the women rushing in the spring about what the sorority members are truly like, not stereotypes. This is a very small system and I'd bet that the guys pledging in the fall will personally know the majority of the people in the Greek system, sororities and fraternities, by the end of the semester. (Their chapter sizes are smaller than your NM class sizes, for comparison.)

Xidelt - a lot of the national HQs used to just bend over and take whatever the school was giving them as far as supplemental programs, ranking systems etc were concerned. They were terrified of losing their chapter on campus if they didn't comply. Now that these things have been around for a few years, they see that they're losing chapters ANYWAY because of the way the school uses the rankings, and they're putting their feet down. Thank heaven.

ASTalumna06 - it definitely sounds like the chapters assume if the guys do something, the girls must do it also. This is definitely not the case. Ask them to call anyone at Clarion if they don't believe you. I guess they a vote to "support" IFC's decision would help when they went to the administration, which kind of is true, but it doesn't mean Panhel has to follow suit.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by alphagamgirl06

I am not sure what the fraternity/ sorority relationships are like at PSB but that would not work for my school. We have found that girls are easily influenced by boys. Have fraternity recruitment in the fall allows guys a chance to learn all about their fraternities relationship with each different sorority and the stereotypes, giving them more information to tell their girlsfriend etc. We have this issue big time and our recruitments are only a week or two apart. That why we had to go to sorority recruitment is always first.

In addition to what 33girl said, the campus was using deferred recruitment beforehand so there was a whole semester for rumors and stereotyping before recruitment anyway. And it's true that fraternity influence may be positive.

But let's face it, if schools that have formal recruitment in August before school even starts have tent talk the rumors are going to fly regardless of timing.