Indiana University New Recruitment

[IUHoosiergirl88]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

Yes! This! As a PNM who had to visit 20 chapters, the skits and shirts were ways to keep the chapters straight in my mind.

I still remember some of the more memorable ones after nearly 5 years--you can't keep them straight without it! Between that and remembering the house 'with the green shag carpet' or the house that 'smelled like pie', it keeps things straight in your head. Girls with the blue shirts go with the house with the airline skit and the white pillars

[DubaiSis]

I agree. And if the expense of matching clothes (especially if it's only t-shirts) is the extent of frills, I'd be all in. Time is the thing, and matching clothing costs no time. But how do they fix the TIME problem?

[IUHoosiergirl88]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

But how do they fix the TIME problem?

By giving all the actives time turners, obviously

[DubaiSis]

Well yes, there's that.

I think the only resolution is adding days to the process. And I'd suck it up and move rush to the fall. Illinois and Iowa have gone to a system where the first (and worst) part of rush happens before school starts and the end of rush happens the next weekend. While that sounded really bad to me, they seem to have found great success from that system so I've been forced to (perish the thought) change my opinion. It can happen!

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Well yes, there's that.

I think the only resolution is adding days to the process. And I'd suck it up and move rush to the fall. Illinois and Iowa have gone to a system where the first (and worst) part of rush happens before school starts and the end of rush happens the next weekend. While that sounded really bad to me, they seem to have found great success from that system so I've been forced to (perish the thought) change my opinion. It can happen!

Illinois has stopped doing that. Recruitment used to be before school started. Now it is right after school starts - split over 2 weekends.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Part of the problem is that, at a school with a TON of chapters, some level of frill is needed just to keep them apart. I think skits are dumb, personally, but door chants and matching t-shirts don't take away from time getting to know the PNM's, and IMO, are really helpful on the PNM side to think back to "oh, the chapter with the purple shirts".

I completely agree. I'm saying that even trying to initiate "no frills" was a stupid idea to begin with - as with many things, it attacked a symptom instead of a real problem.