Recruitment structure changing - Advice wanted

[33girl]

If the chapters have that much trouble getting to/staying at the current total, they shouldn't have voted to raise it. AFAIK this is the only way total can be changed, through vote of Panhellenic. If the Greek advisor or school administration arbitrarily raised it, contact your area NPC advisor.

Also it doesn't make sense to already be planning an informal one-time rush to "fill the chapters with the new total." Usually when total is raised, it is because there are tons of girls wanting to get into the groups and the last thing you need is an extra rush - filling the groups to the new total gets taken care of and then some in formal rush.

Every campus is different about contact and silence rules, but all I can say is don't go overboard with restrictions thinking it will eliminate dirty rushing. (It won't.) The whole point of deferred rush is for PNMs to meet and become friends with sorority women in a normal situation, as opposed to the nuttiness that is formal rush.

Also all the groups need to realize that if there is a huge problem with dirty rushing, backbiting and sh!t talking - that may be part of why your campus only has 5% Greek involvement. No one wants to get involved in that type of community.

[ErinBee]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If the chapters have that much trouble getting to/staying at the current total, they shouldn't have voted to raise it. AFAIK this is the only way total can be changed, through vote of Panhellenic. If the Greek advisor or school administration arbitrarily raised it, contact your area NPC advisor.

Also it doesn't make sense to already be planning an informal one-time rush to "fill the chapters with the new total." Usually when total is raised, it is because there are tons of girls wanting to get into the groups and the last thing you need is an extra rush - filling the groups to the new total gets taken care of and then some in formal rush.

Every campus is different about contact and silence rules, but all I can say is don't go overboard with restrictions thinking it will eliminate dirty rushing. (It won't.) The whole point of deferred rush is for PNMs to meet and become friends with sorority women in a normal situation, as opposed to the nuttiness that is formal rush.

Also all the groups need to realize that if there is a huge problem with dirty rushing, backbiting and sh!t talking - that may be part of why your campus only has 5% Greek involvement. No one wants to get involved in that type of community.

LOVE THIS! That's what the majority of us having been saying for a while. The problem is mostly with a very small percentage of every chapter (I'm not going to be naive enough to think that my chapter is innocent).

I'll pass on all the advice to the recruitment chair. Thank you so much!! I complete agree with everything about raising total and I was definitely scratching my head at that one. I would think if anything our campus should try and add another chapter but ONLY after a couple of years of the chapters staying at total. We have 10 IFC fraternities and only 4 NPC sororities.

I'm an alumna member but I'm still on campus so I hear only one side and have no say. But I'm willingly to offer my advice if wanted.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ErinBee

We have 10 IFC fraternities and only 4 NPC sororities.

That's actually fairly normal (unless the fraternity chapter sizes are larger than the sorority chapter sizes). Fraternities don't have quota or total so their sizes can be all over the board and even if there are one or 2 big ones, there are usually more that are substantially smaller than the average sorority chapter size. When you have fewer fraternities than sororities, start worrying.