University of Pittsburgh recruitment 04

[kddani]

There's really not any risk management problems... at least not with the sororities. Nothing big has happened.

I think a lot of it is that we have many commuters and many people live off campus. Also, there are just so many things to do. And, there was a football game this weekend, and that may have something to do with drops. There's so much to do on our campus and so many things to join.

And another random reason that comes to mind is that there are a lot of kids from working class families that come to Pitt. There's not always the expendable money. Though I think our costs are relatively inexpensive. There's also no tradition.... there are a lot of kids at Pitt whose parents didn't go to college and weren't greek, so it's not in their culture. Or if their parents were greek, it was at a smaller school and it wasn't as big of a deal in their lives. I also think Northerners tend to keep up their greek affiliations less, so we have less active AAs and the ones that are there aren't very strong.

I wish the Pittsburgh Panhellenic (not that it's the strongest) would maybe take up the issue of increasing sorority awareness or something with the local high schools. We have Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, and Robert Morris that have greek life in the area (many other colleges that don't). GL isn't particularly huge at any of them.

Though, 20 miles down the road at Washington and Jefferson college, the greek system is huge (percentage wise, it's a small school). But then again, there's nothing to do there.

/random thoughts