What’s the backup plan for recruitment in August?

[Sen's Revenge]

Not sorority recruitment, but maybe of interest:

My APO chapter carried over their Spring pledge class in hopes that they would be able to complete the final portion of pledging in person in the fall, and then begin fall recruitment and pledging immediately after.

In the interim, the school rolled out an all-freshmen/select upperclassmen plan, where all freshmen would be welcome to campus, sleeping in single dorm rooms, while the majority of the upperclassmen would be expected to be fully online from home. Around 500 upperclassmen would be allowed to live on campus (international students, ROTC, people taking labs, etc).

The chapter decided that not enough students would be on campus to conduct either the in-person make-up pledge process, or a brand new pledge class, so they have made the make-up portion virtual and have canceled pledging for the fall.

In 60+ years, we have only missed a pledge period in 1994.