Indiana University 2014 Recruitment

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My own thoughts, after being a membership advisor at 2 other schools and attending a third; take them with as much salt as you will:

I really want to take everyone from the (housed) house corp boards at IU and shake them. Seriously, alumnae, make some better decisions for the health of the entire system! There is no good reason to set quotas so artificially low. None. You can figure out a way to keep your physical house afloat with fewer than 75% of your members living in, I promise you.

Yes, there will still be many women who will have to take a chance on chapters they felt they didn’t yet connect, it will still be competitive to get spots in most chapters, but hopefully the number of women receiving bids will be in a greater proportion to the number of women starting the process.

The housed vs unhoused chapters is a tricky dynamic at any school, and is made even worse by IU’s silly bed quota system and culture of exclusivity. In the end, women have to decide if they would rather be greek for life (without a house for four years) or not greek at all.

And the Rho Gamma who told her group that they should rank the unhoused chapters last because they have to take everyone should be ashamed of herself and be reported. NOW. As a Rho Gamma you should be impartial, you should not make blanket statements about how to rank, and you should not perpetuate falsehoods that “those chapters have to invite everyone back.” It’s just ridiculous, and NOT TRUE.

Continued luck to all the PNMs, actives, alumnae and parents. And put pressure on your respective groups. I agree with AXORushAdvisor, that I would never want a daughter of mine to experience IU rush, and would not want to send my money that way, either. When alumnae women who are already deeply involved with membership in their organizations are actively dissuading other women from participating (or, actively telling them to participate at a different school instead), you know your campus needs to make some changes. I don’t care if it’s your “tradition” or “culture,” or it “works for the actives.” Sorry Hoosiers, but it’s getting to the point that you’re embarrassing yourselves. And I worry about the damage you’re really doing by having decades of higher disappointment levels than are necessary. I do understand there is disappointment in everyone’s recruitment experience, but IU does things to set itself up for more problems. Your NPC recruitment is diseased, in my diagnosis. We all know that just because something’s always been done a certain way, that does not mean it’s always been done the correct way.