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Originally Posted by 33girl
The reason for the increase is baby boomers' kids all coming to college and the swell of a conservative movement when W was in office. Simple statistics - more people born equals more people in college equals more people pledging. Numbers will probably start dropping within the next few years.
I for one wouldn't complain if the process actually fit the word - i.e. sororities sit down, figure out what they want in a member and then seek out carefully selected women with those qualities. But it doesn't. In formal rush, sororities pledge who shows up at their door. There might be a bit of work trying to get specific women, but they're women who are already in the process.
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With our one year deferred rush, we DID have this period to carefully look at potential rushees and determine which ones would be good fits for our fraternity. Freshman girls planning to go through rush did the same, of course. We also had informal rush functions where we invited the young women we were interested in to breakfast, sporting events, pizza nights, and the like. And continued to do this over the summer until right before formal rush and silence began. This seemed to work well for all the GLOs, and retention rates were very high.
I am very happy that Chi Omega did not go along with an abbreviated pledge period. Ours was one semester, until after grades for the Fall semester were posted. In addition to our weekly meetings with our pledge sisters, we also participated in other activities, including activities we planned with other pledges as well as with the chapter as a whole. By the time we were initiated, we had a very good idea of what membership and sisterhood was all about. The only thing I didn't like was having to surrender my pledge pin!
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