Anonymous recruitment

[VandalSquirrel]

As nice as this idea is in theory it couldn't work due to the information age we are in and each campus has a culture that could potentially work against any idea of evening things out. Over time I think that the changes we have made (RFM, no frills, enforcing policies on dirty rushing) will level out some schools, and has at some. Places where more out of state students are headed that have had traditional strongholds will, and are changing, albeit slowly.

I think our bigger problems are really lying with retention, the cost of college, and the caliber of students attending college. A university degree really isn't for everyone and higher education is going to implode sooner or later and we can't keep doing things the same way with our giant houses and to be honest, some really arcane policies that don't fit the college students in the second decade of the new millennium. There is a lot that has changed but a lot that still needs to changed if we want to stay relevant and vibrant into the future.

Perhaps focusing on how similar we are as organizations and working for a system that allows PNMs to filter out that it often is the women in the chapter at a place and time (their campus during rush) and not all the other stuff we put out there that really is given a different name by the other 25 groups. I can honestly say every group has something I'm interested in and there was something about the women I met when and where I met them in addition to other, albeit other factors, that had me end up where I did. Sure there are some women who have legacy relationships that trump everything, or a relationship with a philanthropy, but those women are not as common as those who don't.

ETA: There are things within my ritual that speak to me like nothing else, and that is something that is unique to my experience and group that wouldn't be exactly replicated elsewhere like swaps, homecoming, candle passes, parties, and the other things we all do. Maybe (likely) the women who are my sisters saw something in me that related to our ritual and that's part of why I am an Alpha Gam, but ritual is something that comes with Initiation and hopefully we can find our deeper meaning during our too short new member periods.