Anonymous recruitment

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Originally Posted by DTD Alum

Not to mention, how would you explain your sorority's values?

Well, let's be frank...those are all kind of the same anyway. I mean I don't think XYZ says "we only want girls who are beautiful" and ABC says "we only want girls who are academically superior." Pretty much all of the sororities want well rounded women and want to help develop women to that end.

As far as being more or less Jewish, Christian etc, regardless of what is in your ritual, that varies WIDELY from campus to campus. Ditto with how you focus your philanthropy efforts.

No frills has supposedly been happening for the last 15 years. Some schools have embraced it in the manner in which it was intended, some schools have used it as a way for chapters to snitch on each other and get hit with infractions, and some schools will have each girl rip out a kidney and send it to Australia before they give up chants, skits, matching outfits and thousands of dollars' worth of decorations.

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

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.

I completely agree with this. We need to get rid of national awards for achieving quota/total and replace them with awards for the highest percentage of pledges staying active until their senior year. I would bet that some schools that supposedly have "weak" Greek system would tote home all these awards - as the people who join at such systems join because they really want to, not just because it's the socially "right" thing to do.

Although I think that this may be one silver lining in this recession - kids who want no part of college (or being Greek) won't be buffaloed or coerced into it by their parents, simply because the $$ isn't there.

As to the original post, I don't know that we so much want to make it anonymous as we want to impress upon women that the best sorority is the sorority that fits them. Making things anonymous just masks the problem, it doesn't really solve it.