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In an ideal world, recruitment skits, songs and decorations would be banished. PNM's would have opportunities throughout the semester to interact with sororities by being invited to special dinners, sisterhood picnics, enrichment workshops (ie: Resume Writing, Self-Defense, Living on a College Budget, etc) and community service events or fundraisers. They would get a feel for the members and what it is like to be a member of a sorority.

Recruitment would be a year-round casual practice, and members would be COB'd in without a formal song and dance routine to court them.

Realistically, that would never happen.

So ideally, I'd like a week where PNM's go to all houses on the first night and then have the option to travel from house to house through a 4 hour window for refreshments and conversation. Chapters would have awards on display, a video recalling their accomplishments and chapter highlights and conversation would be the most important part of the event... not the red carpet runway being held in place with duct tape and push pins. After some general discussion, members would be offered bids on the spot and given 24 hours to accept-- at which point they would begin a structured new member period and initiated pending sucessful completion of one semester with decent grades.

(you know, kind of like fraternity rush....)