University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment 2013

[GCBB]

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SCRIPT FOR POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS SIGNING THE MRABA

Script to be used immediately before potential new member signs Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding
Agreement (MRABA)

Explanation for Potential New Members

Signing the Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement

The members of the National Panhellenic Conference want every potential new member to be informed about her
options for joining a women’s fraternity. To be certain that each woman has this information, this script must be used
immediately prior to signing the membership recruitment acceptance binding agreement. The script may be used for
either a two- or three-Preference event schedule.
__________________________________________________ _______________
Good evening. You have just completed some of the busiest days of your college career. Now you have the opportunity
to make a decision that will broaden your college experience and introduce you to a nationwide network of friends.
Please carefully consider the following points as you complete your membership recruitment acceptance binding
agreement.
1. Your options when considering your agreement are:
• Youmany choose notto complete an agreement atthistime.
• Youmay choose to list any sororitywhose preference (last) event you attended and fromwhomyou are
willing to accept an invitation to membership (a bid).
• Youmay choose to list onlyone preference, but youmust understand thatthiswill limit yourpotentialto
join any other NPC group during formal recruitment should you not be placed with your single (only)
choice.
2. When you sign this acceptance agreement, you are agreeing to accept an invitation to membership from any NPC
fraternity/sorority that you have listed.
3. Once the acceptance agreement has been turned in to the representative of the College Panhellenic Association, it
cannot be altered or changed.
4. If you receive an invitation to membership (a bid) from any NPC group that you have listed, and you choose not to
accept it, you may not pledge any other NPC women’s fraternity/sorority on the campus until the beginning of the
next primary recruitment period. [Explain the Unanimous Agreements and show the NPC Manual of Information,
18th Edition. Then read III: The Panhellenic Compact, No. 4.]

If you do not receive an invitation to membership (a bid) from any NPC group that you have listed, you are eligible for
continuous open bidding. You must understand that not all NPC groups will have available places for new members.

[AZTheta]

^^^thank you.

[newbierebmom]

Dues/fees/housing costs info on each sorority was just posted on the Ole Miss Panhellenic page on FB.

[choabet]

I got to Oxford yesterday and found my daughter having mixed emotions. She had great returns from philanthropy and was fortunate to have a full schedule for skits. Some of the friends in Martin are not faring as well and she is struggling with that. She says the Gamma Chi's are enthusiastically promoting ADPi and she said visiting them at philanthropy was a highlight for her and for many girls.

The gift giving? Don't get me started. Lilly Pad suggested I should spend $400-500 for bid day because that's what "everyone" will do. I had to politely not try to laugh and am totally regretting spending what I did. I found another store that had a smaller but really cute selection but they didn't do a mailer to parents so they weren't as well known. Hey moderator! Next year a great thread would be one that included names of stores and ideas for gift giving, especially around the south. There have to be other, more reasonable options out there. I truly feel that my daughter is having a successful rush; piling presents on everyday (many girls in Martin were getting gifts AND flowers everyday) is over kill. It reminds me of the grandparents that buy stacks of Christmas gifts so there are tons of presents to open. One really thoughtful, nice something would be better. <end of rant>.

The girls are in long lines to rank for pref and fingers crossed for all.

[Titchou]

OK, folks. How many times - and in this thread - do we have to disect the MRABA and how bidding works? Besides, they've been doing this at Ole Miss for a long, long time and they will get it right. Let's not obsess over the minutiae. If one attends all the parties to which they are matched and lists all the places where one attends pref, one will get a bid unless it's determined between the time the invitation was issued and the time the bid list is due to PH that one is an ax murderer or a convicted felon or the "best friend" of the entire varsity football team....if you get my drift..

Let's trust the system, folks!

[carnation]

LOL, Titchou, you know what'll happen now--someone's daughter won't get a bid after attending 3 parties and they'll wonder how that could be and think, "Wait a minute! Titchou said...oh no..."

[adiisis]

So if I understand. If u get one party for pref you are 99.999% certain to get a bid if u sign the bid card?

[SigKapSweetie]

Originally Posted by adiisis

So if I understand. If u get one party for pref you are 99.999% certain to get a bid if u sign the bid card?

Yes. If you go to the maximum number of parties to which you are invited and you list all of those chapters on your bid card (so, just one chapter if you were only invited to pref at one chapter), you have maximized your options and are eligible for a quota addition, which means you have a VERY high probability of getting a bid.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by carnation

LOL, Titchou, you know what'll happen now--someone's daughter won't get a bid after attending 3 parties and they'll wonder how that could be and think, "Wait a minute! Titchou said...oh no..."

In which case they should have a serious talk with their daughter about what that dreaded "something" might be....

[HQWest]

Yes if you just decided sorority life is not for you or that you didn't get the invites you wanted - now is a very bad time to try to tell Mama "oh I just didn't get a bid."

[GCBB]

For the moms who are wondering why they haven't heard from their daughters tonight, the pref parties were originally scheduled to be over at 8:20 tonight. A friend of mine who is an alum helping with Rush was told this morning that an extra party has been added so that the groups won't be so huge. She and I are assuming that means the final party will be over about 10. She didn't have specifics.

[CMDelta]

Hmmm....that's really interesting. I am here helping too and we weren't told any such thing. According to our schedule there are the 5 original rounds and it ends at 8:20 pm. Could they have different schedules?

[GCBB]

CMD, If you are there "on the ground," I suspect your information is better than mine. Perhaps my friend had mistakenly thought there were only 4 rounds and when she heard there were 5, she thought one had been added. I'm sorry I posted what has turned out to be erroneous information.

[newbierebmom]

I'm here in Oxford. My DD also thought she would be finished around 8:30ish. We were going to have a late dinner together because she said many friends were doing separate things rather than hang together. (I told her she could hang with her friends, I didn't need to see her tonight. But she indicated many are stressed and a little scared so they were not going to get together ...or at least that's what she said at 12:45 when she left.)

But after my DD left to go to pref parties, I got a text from her roommate's boyfriend saying that her last round ends at 9:40. That makes sense now based on what y'all are saying.

A few more tidbits from "the ground"

-it's raining...It's not a washout at the moment, but we just had a heavy shower move through. More to come....ugh.

-the rain is ushering in a cold front tomorrow. Should be heavy rain overnight and in morning and cloudy with potentially more rain in afternoon....:-( But temps will be dropping. It was HOT today...upper 80s. Tomorrow's high is 70!

-Until I got to campus I didn't understand what y'all meant by "tent talk"..... Ah! Now I get it. (There are tents in front of each house where girls wait ...Had no clue!)

-Overheard in the lobby of my daughter's dorm (NOTE: THIS WAS OVERHEARD AND NOT ACCURATE! The girl who worked the desk said it to another mom sitting in lobby. I didn't say a word, just smiled.....) : The cuts this year were brutal because of new sorority coming to campus. There were 5000 girls going through rush and they cut 1200 the first day. Second day they cut 800. (SERIOUSLY?? I knew from GC that the number of PNMs who registered was about 1300-1400.)

Oh well, I hope all goes well for all the girls....and I really hope the rain holds out until after 10 and is finished by 2:30 tomorrow afternoon!!

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by newbierebmom

Overheard in the lobby of my daughter's dorm (NOTE: THIS WAS OVERHEARD AND NOT ACCURATE! The girl who worked the desk said it to another mom sitting in lobby. I didn't say a word, just smiled.....) : The cuts this year were brutal because of new sorority coming to campus. There were 5000 girls going through rush and they cut 1200 the first day. Second day they cut 800. (SERIOUSLY?? I knew from GC that the number of PNMs who registered was about 1300-1400.)

Good heavens, I am not sure if the entire female freshman class was 5000! Yes, rush at Ole Miss is tough. Ridiculous exaggeration like this just inflates the anxiety.

And yes, I am on pins & needles tonight!!! Can't wait for Bid Day!