University of Texas Recruitment 2014

[PinkSkyAtNight]

This "dance party" thing is really disgusting. I read about it yesterday, and I am having a hard time understanding why UT Panhellenic continues to allow them to participate in recruitment or why their nationals haven't stepped in and put their foot down. It is embarassing for for all greeks. Are people too afraid to stand up and do what is right?

How do you think their founders would feel in they attended recruitment at this chapter?

[APhiLife]

Buzz is that UT Rush was brutal this year. I live in the Plano area and I have heard about several girls from this area who were dropped (or quit after their "dream house" didn't invite them back). These were quality girls- but as others have stated, almost all girls going through UT Recruitment are polished, quality girls with connections.
Somone posted on a local Mom's board that girls from Plano did better at Alabama rush than at UT this year. I heard 15 girls with Plano as their hometown received bids at Bama last week.
It does seem strange to me that UT has such a small Greek system as I went to a big school in the MidWest where Greek Row stretched on for blocks.

[PNMDAD]

Originally Posted by PinkSkyAtNight

This "dance party" thing is really disgusting. I read about it yesterday, and I am having a hard time understanding why UT Panhellenic continues to allow them to participate in recruitment or why their nationals haven't stepped in and put their foot down. It is embarassing for for all greeks. Are people too afraid to stand up and do what is right?

I agree wholeheartedly

Originally Posted by thetalady

I sure wish PNMs could refuse to allow themselves to be treated like that, too!

Maybe their behavior is starting to haunt them. No girl from my daughter's school pledged the offending house.

Originally Posted by sassafrass11

PNMDAD, I hope your daughter had a successful recruitment. I hope she has a house. would you share her final home?

Thanks for your concern. Luckily, she got the house she had been aiming toward for the last 6 months.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by PNMDAD

Luckily, she got the house she had been aiming toward for the last 6 months.

SO glad to hear that your daughter pledged a house that she liked from the beginning. Congratulations to her!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by PinkSkyAtNight

This "dance party" thing is really disgusting. I read about it yesterday, and I am having a hard time understanding why UT Panhellenic continues to allow them to participate in recruitment or why their nationals haven't stepped in and put their foot down. It is embarassing for for all greeks. Are people too afraid to stand up and do what is right?

As pinapple mentioned, Panhellenic does fine them and they keep right on doing it. To disallow them from participating in formal rush would just open a really big can of worms regarding ritual and membership selection. I was thinking why don't they just do rush on their own, and then said to myself duhhhhh, because they are at or over total and wouldn't be able to take quota. Right? (paging gatordeltapgh)

[PinkSkyAtNight]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As pinapple mentioned, Panhellenic does fine them and they keep right on doing it. To disallow them from participating in formal rush would just open a really big can of worms regarding ritual and membership selection. I was thinking why don't they just do rush on their own, and then said to myself duhhhhh, because they are at or over total and wouldn't be able to take quota. Right? (paging gatordeltapgh)

I'm not disagreeing with anything you wrote, but how would it infringe on ritual and membership selection to disallow them to have their dance parties... or else? I'm not suggesting that can't have their private decisions remain private, but what they do IN FRONT of a PNM and how they engage with her can be regulated by Panhellenic. Where in the recruitment booklet does it say that at some houses some of you will be required to get up and dance? Do PNMs know and expect this coming in? This just seems like they are throwing a giant middle finger to the recruitment process as a whole. There are plenty of chapters with outstanding return rates that aren't behaving in such a manner, I guess I wonder why they feel the need to belittle everyone else they aren't pursuing? Do they think it adds to their aura of exclusiveness?