University of Texas-Austin Roundup

[Eightisgreat]

IFC is the council that oversees the men's group. But this event was talked about at 80% of the tables, especially when the active that was representing their sorority was also a member of a UT chapter. It was my understanding that it is basically a big social event, with mixers being the focus. With the UT Panhellenic attempting to curb "dirty rush", I suspect the linked letter is a direct result of that. It puts PNMs in a bit of a damned if you do/damned if you don't situation. I am currently in the don't do it camp.

[33girl]

Does she have any UT connections at all (i.e. people she knows from HS who go there, etc) or will she be coming in to the school a complete unknown, if she decides to go there?

[dnall]

It's not necessarily bad for her to be up there.

Roundup traditionally is a big push by all fraternities aimed at current students leading into summer recruiting in prep for fall rush. And of course a lot of high school kids figured out they could join in, which just means they have to talk to someone to get a wrist band.

Sororities will be all over the place in letters trying to see and be seen as promotion for rush, but I don't know that they're actively recruiting.

However, sororities are doing a LOT of events too. Most of them are charity BBQ or lunch at XYZ house for 5 bucks kind of things, none of which requires a wristband. All that stuff is floating around facebook. It might be beneficial for a girl to go to a bunch of that stuff so she can check out the sororities outside a rush environment & just get an idea of what she's getting into. Don't think it's really necessary or anything though.

[Eightisgreat]

33-

She does know some girls from her HS who are active members. They are actually spread out among a multitude of sororities.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Eightisgreat

33-

She does know some girls from her HS who are active members. They are actually spread out among a multitude of sororities.

She should probably ask them about the appropriateness of attending or whether there are similar events appropriate for high school students.

[Eightisgreat]

Some of these girls are the girls that asked if she was coming that weekend. I guess the issue I have with it is that from what I read, ie the letter linked and other information state that high school seniors should not be at these events. But the conflict is that although "officially" seniors should not be there, unofficially I would say it is apparent they will be. If it doesn't hurt to not be there, then I would prefer she not. I guess a compromise would be her attending the charity focused daytime outings and skipping the evening parties.