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09-25-2007, 08:09 AM
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Glad to hear that y'all are doing well! I love to root for the underdog!! I just have a beef with your siggy....as a tried and true LSU fan...I hope Saban loses every other game of the season!! Sorry Bama!
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For the life of me I can't understand why LSU fans now hate Saban. He brought you guys a national championship, and the team would not be where it is now without his foundation... oh well. That's for another thread.
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09-25-2007, 09:39 AM
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To continue the hijack...sorry I just had to.
I get why LSU fans are mad at Saban, might I add, I don't mind a bit because we ended up on the good end of the deal.
If Gene Stallings had left Bama after winning his Nat'l Championship to go the the pro's and then decided to come back to college and took at job at that other school down the road, not to be named by my mouth ever...cowpasture. I would feel beyond angry and betrayed. I think it is more about where Saban went to after he left the dolphins than anything else. I mean they probably wouldn't be mad if he had ended up at a non-SEC school. I could be wrong here, but I feel like it's the rivalry SEC issue more than anything else.
Like I said before though, I don't mind a lick!
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09-27-2007, 08:17 AM
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"i also don't think UA should be allowed to spring rush girls. Auburn doesn't and i think it's a great idea. it really gets girls' hopes up for nothing[or in other cases, for everything."
Auburn does do spring recruitment IF there are groups below total. That is the only requisite for spring recruitment. And ONLY groups below total can participate. I believe at this time there is only one group there below total. I may be wrong though as I haven't checked since recruitment.
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09-27-2007, 08:40 AM
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"i also don't think UA should be allowed to spring rush girls. Auburn doesn't and i think it's a great idea. it really gets girls' hopes up for nothing[or in other cases, for everything."
Auburn does do spring recruitment IF there are groups below total. That is the only requisite for spring recruitment. And ONLY groups below total can participate. I believe at this time there is only one group there below total. I may be wrong though as I haven't checked since recruitment.
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I think she's talking about the panhellenic weekend that they have in April for HS seniors. A lot of the girls end up being guests of friends and stay in the house.
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09-27-2007, 08:44 AM
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I don't think so - we had Spring informal recruitment and only groups that were below total could participate. Typically, 2 out of our 6 wouldn't do informal recruitment, they would just double up on service events.
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09-27-2007, 08:56 AM
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lilylover,
i am sorry that you had such a bad experience with recruitment. this is exactly what many of us warn about when a pnm settles on one sorority early in the recruitment process and decides that it is ABC sorority or nothing.
there are too many threads where girls have done this, but on the other hand, there are probably as many stories where girls loved one house, were not invited back to that one, but they kept going and found the place they were truly meant to be.
you had 5 invitations on a six party day-we know that is very good for a competitive recruitment. it's too bad that you did not attend the parties. those groups obviously saw something in you that made them want to invite you back.
is it too late for you to join a sorority at the school you transferred to?
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09-27-2007, 09:52 AM
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She is talking about the recruitment style of houses. At bama chapters have already compiled (or are in the process of compiling) their rush lists for fall 08. Senior and some junior girls in high school are invited to spend the weekend in Tuscaloosa and hang out with the girls in the chapter. They go to band parties, dinner and possibly the game if they can get a ticket. Chapters also have letter-writings during the year and send little notes to pnm's on their rush list just to say hello/congratulate on winning an award/happy birthday/whatever else. Many chapters have started doing "hometown dinners" where 15 or so chapter members go to the hometowns of girls and they all go out to a restaurant together. So for instance all the Birmingham girls being rushed will get together and go to cheesecake factory or pf changs with some of the actives. All of these things are in addition to what someone has called "sip and sees". We just call them teas. This all continues until around May 5 when no contact starts for bama.
I doubt LilyLover has a problem with the actual Spring Recruitment at Bama. I think it's more the recruiting methods of chapters to make girls "love us" before fall recruitment or even their senior year of high school.
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09-27-2007, 01:34 PM
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She is talking about the recruitment style of houses. At bama chapters have already compiled (or are in the process of compiling) their rush lists for fall 08. Senior and some junior girls in high school are invited to spend the weekend in Tuscaloosa and hang out with the girls in the chapter. They go to band parties, dinner and possibly the game if they can get a ticket. Chapters also have letter-writings during the year and send little notes to pnm's on their rush list just to say hello/congratulate on winning an award/happy birthday/whatever else. Many chapters have started doing "hometown dinners" where 15 or so chapter members go to the hometowns of girls and they all go out to a restaurant together. So for instance all the Birmingham girls being rushed will get together and go to cheesecake factory or pf changs with some of the actives. All of these things are in addition to what someone has called "sip and sees". We just call them teas. This all continues until around May 5 when no contact starts for bama.
I doubt LilyLover has a problem with the actual Spring Recruitment at Bama. I think it's more the recruiting methods of chapters to make girls "love us" before fall recruitment or even their senior year of high school.
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YES this is exactly what i'm talking about. my own mother was asked to give tea's when i was a junior and senior in highschool for her alumnae sorority. talk abotu a slap in my mom's face when they dropped me.
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09-27-2007, 01:37 PM
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YES this is exactly what i'm talking about. my own mother was asked to give tea's when i was a junior and senior in highschool for her alumnae sorority. talk abotu a slap in my mom's face when they dropped me.
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It doesn't matter WHO your mother is...recruitment is about YOU. Being a legacy may get you a second look, but it won't automatically get you a bid. You're talking about a school that could fill probably 2 pledge classes with legacies.
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09-27-2007, 12:05 PM
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I don't think this would fly at my school, even though they go silent after h.s. graduation, I think they would still consider it dirty rushing at my school. It seemed like panhel wanted everyone on a level playing ground for formal recruitment, even if they knew everyone wasn't. I know in my chapter we were asked to talk to girls coming in as freshman - but only if we knew them (So and so's cousin is going to go to our school next year, go ahead and see if she'll be going through recruitment in the fall, etc.)
Although, I have to say, it is pretty smart to go ahead and take the time to recruit the women your chapter really wants and would be a good fit - but still seems a little sneaky to me... although, large companies do it to college juniors and seniors all the time (Club Car recruiting at VA Tech for example) so I guess it makes a lot of sense in the long run!
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09-27-2007, 01:30 PM
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I'm really surprised that most of you didn't know about all the very early recruiting at Bama. It's all about having your ear to the ground and getting to know PNMs as early as possible. Alabama high-schoolers typically pick their Auburn/Alabama allegiances early, and it's usually known years ahead of time that these girls will be coming to Bama and want to rush.
In addition, many sororities have "core" high schools that they recruit out of, and alums send in recs early and often. And most chapters do require a rec, if not more than one, to be on their lawn on Bid Day, even if that goes against their respective national policies. This is why the "typical" Southern sororities and the more established chapters continue to do well, because they already have huge underground Junior League-style networks of alums who keep tabs on prospective PNMs.
Most of what lillylover says is true, though she obviously got her heart set on an Old Row sorority, and once she was cut from those, it was all over in her eyes. I'm sure she would have had a much better time at Bama had she pledged one of those 5 houses she had left, but she dug her own grave on that. Lilly's comments really underscore the fact that most Bama PNMs do not keep their options open.
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09-27-2007, 02:26 PM
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it's the machine. i don't make the decisions. my apologies for offending you. again, just stating the facts.
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09-27-2007, 02:45 PM
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She's a Phi Mu wannabe!!
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09-27-2007, 02:58 PM
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I don't think it is appropriate to say that it is desperate when you are talking about one of the largest, strongest, and fastest growing greek systems in the country. It takes a lot time to do all these things, but when they are divided between 200 girls, it's really not that bad. I promise!
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09-27-2007, 03:17 PM
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I don't think it is appropriate to say that it is desperate when you are talking about one of the largest, strongest, and fastest growing greek systems in the country. It takes a lot time to do all these things, but when they are divided between 200 girls, it's really not that bad. I promise!
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I said it seemed desperate. Why else would they feel the need to grab these girls and basically brainwash them years before they even set foot on the college campus? Are they afraid the girls won't like them and pick them once they have a chance to meet the other sororities? And they're so afraid of that that they'll invest years of their lives in trying to win over these girls? Yep, that sounds desperate to me.
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