Spring Recruitment

[KDMafia]

I come from/advise a chapter that has deferred rush. However it's a small school with total set at 42 currently.

We haven't seen many issues with dirty rushing that is directly related to it being deferred. We had more issues of it when he had a partially structured in the Fall for COBing upper classmen and I believe this more related with people struggling with the partially structured nature and not knowing how to effective recruit their friends (bid promising was usually seen with sophomores who were not yet familiar with their chapter's selection process and seemed to come more out of an awkwardness then maliciousness).

The one bad thing I've seen is that even on a small campus where most individuals do no come in very aware of greek life the first semester then allows a lot of rumous to flourish and make it easier for PNMs to become to attached to the idea of one sorority.

The second issue is girls losing interest due to either feeling like they have solid friendship circles and not wanting to break those up or just not caring as they have joined other organizaiton, started volunteering elsewhere and have their own social circle. the problem comes when they come back from sophomore year and are in different buildings from their friends and realize no one is knocking on their door to get them involved anymroe because they are no longer freshmen.

This second issue can be easily dealt with if you utilize the first semester like it's supposed to be. As one long, casual recruitment event. Keep Greek Life in their face and have Panhellenic events as well as making sure sororities are putting one events geared towards showing the positives of greek life. If the sororities just put on a handlful of events and then disappear you run the risk of girls feeling that there is no reason to be in a greek organization, or you have them making their decisions about sororities based on their interactions with one or two individuals and not seeing Greek Life as a whole.