Class during recruitment!?!

[ThetaPrincess24]

My school's Panhellenic works with PNM's who have class during recruitment parties. They will do a split party schedule for them.

For example let's say Philanthropy night parties are 1 hour long. A PNM has some kind of scheduling conflict and is not able to attend a 1 hour party for 8 chapters. They split up her schedule, so she visits two chapters in that one hour period. The sorority is made aware of the arrangement prior to the PNM showing up and is prepared for it.

Your Greek Life office/Greek Advisor should be able to tell you if they make such accomodations.

[nittanygirl]

Thanks for your help guys!
I emailed the membership vp and she was very helpful.
It does look as though I'm going to have to make a choice about classes (my school doesn't do the split parties though that sounds like it would be so helpful.
With her help though, I feel like this will be an easier & less stressful decision for me to make.
I am getting even more excited as it gets closer to recruitment!

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

Thanks for your help guys!
I emailed the membership vp and she was very helpful.
It does look as though I'm going to have to make a choice about classes (my school doesn't do the split parties though that sounds like it would be so helpful. With her help though, I feel like this will be an easier & less stressful decision for me to make.
I am getting even more excited as it gets closer to recruitment!

This is my opinion on it. If you are wiling to put sororities over classes, when you aren't even a member of one, how will it effect you if you do cross. I guarantee these kind of conflicts will happen again, and you need to figure out early which is more important to you.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

This is my opinion on it. If you are wiling to put sororities over classes, when you aren't even a member of one, how will it effect you if you do cross. I guarantee these kind of conflicts will happen again, and you need to figure out early which is more important to you.

I remember having this discussion on GC about a year ago. I agree with your stance (the purpose of college is graduating, not rushing -- my org and my council is set up to accomodate that), but there are a bunch of organizations that want you to show up to these things or face getting cut/not getting a bid. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

ETA: Here's the thread.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I remember having this discussion on GC about a year ago. I agree with your stance (the purpose of college is graduating, not rushing -- my org and my council is set up to accomodate that), but there are a bunch of organizations that want you to show up to these things or face getting cut/not getting a bid. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

ETA: Here's the thread.

We only do informal recruitment, which is what I guess would be considered to be COB for NPC, but we always set events to happen after night class if they are at night.

[Carpe Aeternum]

I'm glad you're on your way to figuring it out... don't forget to check your syllabus. If this class meets once a week, you probably get very few skips. You may want those skips to spend with your sisters or you may NEED them later in the semester due to illness, family emergency, huge paper. IME, the consequences for missing classes that are this long are severe: withdrawn from course, dropped a letter grade, etc.

I'm a fellow PNM, so I can't speak on the missing recruitment aspect; but from a purely academic standpoint, I've seen friends go to the end of the semester with no skips and seen it wreck havoc. Keep that in mind when making your decision.

[aephi alum]

Don't skip class. You're at college to learn, and your first priority should be your classes.

As others have suggested, talk to your rho chi (or whatever they are called at your school). If nothing else, she can try to make sure most or all of your second round parties are scheduled on the day you don't have class (if you don't have a full schedule), to minimize the number of parties you'd be missing while you're in class.