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Now, here comes spring. Formal recruitment! At our school it was aimed at Freshmen and Sophomores, but I believe that they did open it to everyone. I honestly encourage women to go through formal. It was SO eye opening. It made me realize some judgments you make about chapters are false, and make you think, “Hey, I could be an XYZ, some of their sisters are like me.”
We paid $3 to sign up. In my first year sorority scrapbook I have my flier with a note to call Kathy and ask her about what formal recruitment was! I have three sororities circled on the paper – MM, Batman and Flash. There was a meeting to let us know what was going to go on and I remember being given a large (probably 4x6) note card to decorate for a nametag. A HUGE name tag. I have mine in my scrapbook. I decided to collage mine, the same way I did my door. I went a little nuts with my door freshman year. The door and nametag were covered in things from magazines that I liked. It was a great conversation starter. I loved it.
Wednesday Feb 2, 2000
The first night of recruitment was “Meet the Greeks” In my booklet I have written “Black Pants.” I wore – you guessed it, black pants. I have a picture in the scrapbook; I also wore this red and white tie dye, long sleeved shirt with Japanese characters on it and a tattoo necklace. (REMEMBER, it was 2000, fashion was questionable then.) We met all 9 sororities. NINE? I thought you said 7?! Yes, we met the 7 NPC sororities and then the two NPHC, Alpha Kappa Alpha and Zeta Phi Beta. Afterward, if you wanted to pursue AKA or ZPhiB, you then dropped out. The parties were held in our science building and were 15 minutes long. I do not remember the order, but I will let you know my impressions! I am listing my “circled three” first. (I will let you know that I honestly LOVED every chapter. I think our Greek life, while we did have our spats, were pretty close.)
I had two super Rho Chis. One was my main Rho Chi and the other also worked with our group. They were very helpful in all of this decision making! I wondered what chapters they were from.
Batman: These women were very similar to MM. They were very nice and I felt welcome.
Flash Again, pretty nice. Similar in “standing” to Batman and MM. I liked them, but didn’t seem to 100% click with them.
MM: I loved MM. I knew some of the women, I related to them. I wanted to be a MM!
Green Lantern: One of our “top” sororities. They had a large chapter. The women were great! I liked them.
Superman I assigned these randomly, but how funny. They were considered the “top.” I was a little intimidated before meeting them. They were all beautiful and put together. I didn’t think we’d have anything in common. I was wrong! I loved visiting Superman! They quickly became part of my top three. Could they replace MM?
Blue Beetle Another chapter similar to MM in “standing.” I liked these girls too (common theme!) However, I didn’t see myself as part of their chapter.
Aquaman I thought this chapter was very nice. They were the smallest of the seven, which made me think about how large of a chapter I wanted to be a part of.
Total at the time on campus was 60. The two top chapters (again, in my mind and from what the chatter was around campus) were usually around 60. Batman was usually around 50-60 as well. MM, BB and Flash were all between 40-50. Aquaman was a lot smaller, I believe about 20.
After we were allowed to choose FIVE parties.
My List:
Martian Manhunter
Batman
Flash
Green Lantern
Superman
XBlue Beetle
XAquaman
I just didn’t feel at home with Blue Beetle and I worried about the size of the Aquamanchapter. (They did eventually close shortly after I graduated. I ended up with two pretty close friends who were Aquaman!)
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