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Originally posted by SnowLady
There is a great deal of discussion among university adminstrators (in general) that deferred recruitment allows freshman to get aquinted with college life before they jump into any time commitments.
As a Greek Life person I'm annoyed that they don't defer other groups from also allowing people to join. To me it seems as they they are sectioning out Greeks and saying only this subset of university life has to follow this rule.
In the mean time Frannie Freshman gets involved in Camera Club and Habitat for Humanity and other worthy time consuming organizations and by December / January / Febuary is all tapped out for time - because they've also taken this new required class called Freshman Seminar that tells them that they should limit their non-study/class time to x-amount of time per week. And then they hear that that a fraternity or sorority will take 5 - 10 hours a week and they've been turned away. The prime people we want are those that are joining Habitat and getting good grades and understand time managment.
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Camera Club is not a lifetime commitment.
Habitat for Humanity is not a lifetime commitment.
That's the difference. I would rather someone wait for a semester or a year and make a better decision, rather than join a semester early and get so burnt out or disillusioned that they want nothing to do with Greek life by their senior year, let alone as an alum. I'm not saying that's the norm, but it certainly seems to happen quite a bit (from a female perspective - I think for guys it's not quite as bad).
If they're taking courses that say you should only have x amount of hours spent on outside activities - that's stupid not just for Greek life reasons. That sounds like a power play by the athletic department to make sure athletes don't join any other groups.
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