NPC Recruitment and Chapter Listing: Fall 2022-Spring 2023

[Sister Havana]

IU Panhellenic has their 2023 Primary Recruitment Statistics (PDF) available on their website. There’s a lot of information available this year!

Please note that these numbers don’t include any new members added through informal recruitment.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

IU Panhellenic has their 2023 Primary Recruitment Statistics (PDF) available on their website. There’s a lot of information available this year!

Please note that these numbers don’t include any new members added through informal recruitment.

Curious about a couple things that you or someone at IU might know more about:

-did ASA participate in formal recruitment this year? 0 new members means I'm guessing not. do they have a house?

-what does the 1 released PNM after open invite mean? was there one PNM so...unique...that every chapter declined to invite her back to philanthropy? if so, oof.

-at the bottom of the document it says "IU does not set campus total" in bold and italics so you know they really mean it. I might be out of date on my green book, but I thought there were a couple ways to calculate total NPC allows and then the campus itself selects which one to use? like mean, median, highest chapter size? am I totally off-base?

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

Curious about a couple things that you or someone at IU might know more about:

-did ASA participate in formal recruitment this year? 0 new members means I'm guessing not. do they have a house?

-what does the 1 released PNM after open invite mean? was there one PNM so...unique...that every chapter declined to invite her back to philanthropy? if so, oof.

-at the bottom of the document it says "IU does not set campus total" in bold and italics so you know they really mean it. I might be out of date on my green book, but I thought there were a couple ways to calculate total NPC allows and then the campus itself selects which one to use? like mean, median, highest chapter size? am I totally off-base?

I am an IU alum, I can definitely answer a couple of these. ASA has an office, not sure that is the correct word for it, but it's a central meeting spot. They can hang out there, have events, etc. They do not have a chapter house. They are down to around 40 members if I have been told correctly, so they were basically unable to complete formal recruitment. They do the bulk of their recruitment informally.

IU does not set campus total due to the different living situations. There are large traditional chapter houses, one chapter lives in an apartment block, and one chapter has a central meeting spot. By not setting campus total, chapters can better meet their housing goals. Some houses sleep 70ish while some could sleep 110+. This allows all chapters to be able to stay financially viable while making quota. Some COB to fill bed spots or a number their national organization would like them to meet.

As far as the 1 PMN released...if social media is to be believed she was an "influencer" who went to parties in the late fall and posted live from a fraternity house and then the house suffered some university consequences. There was a "fear" that she might make a habit of it and she was released by all chapters. I cannot verify this, but I have seen it written and heard it a couple of different places.

[shadokat]

From what I heard, ASA did not do formal recruitment. I'm really surprised that Theta Phi Alpha didn't do very well. They were doing pretty good for a chapter with no house on that campus.

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

I am an IU alum, I can definitely answer a couple of these. ASA has an office, not sure that is the correct word for it, but it's a central meeting spot. They can hang out there, have events, etc. They do not have a chapter house. They are down to around 40 members if I have been told correctly, so they were basically unable to complete formal recruitment. They do the bulk of their recruitment informally.

IU does not set campus total due to the different living situations. There are large traditional chapter houses, one chapter lives in an apartment block, and one chapter has a central meeting spot. By not setting campus total, chapters can better meet their housing goals. Some houses sleep 70ish while some could sleep 110+. This allows all chapters to be able to stay financially viable while making quota. Some COB to fill bed spots or a number their national organization would like them to meet.

As far as the 1 PMN released...if social media is to be believed she was an "influencer" who went to parties in the late fall and posted live from a fraternity house and then the house suffered some university consequences. There was a "fear" that she might make a habit of it and she was released by all chapters. I cannot verify this, but I have seen it written and heard it a couple of different places.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by shadokat

From what I heard, ASA did not do formal recruitment. I'm really surprised that Theta Phi Alpha didn't do very well. They were doing pretty good for a chapter with no house on that campus.

Theta Phi did lease the Delta Tau Delta house for a few years. The house is massive, it has an indoor basketball court. It became a hardship rather than a benefit during recruitment and the chapter voted to move back to a block in an apartment complex and give up the house. They made quota one of the years in the house, they have not made quota since moving back to the apartments, which I find odd. I thought having an apartment block would appeal to women who want to be Greek but don't want to live in a house with 100 other women, share communal bathrooms, etc.

[shadokat]

I do remember them moving back to the apartments, and for some reason I feel like they did ok last year during formal recruitment. Maybe I'm mistaken.

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

Theta Phi did lease the Delta Tau Delta house for a few years. The house is massive, it has an indoor basketball court. It became a hardship rather than a benefit during recruitment and the chapter voted to move back to a block in an apartment complex and give up the house. They made quota one of the years in the house, they have not made quota since moving back to the apartments, which I find odd. I thought having an apartment block would appeal to women who want to be Greek but don't want to live in a house with 100 other women, share communal bathrooms, etc.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by Sister Havana

IU Panhellenic has their 2023 Primary Recruitment Statistics (PDF) available on their website. There’s a lot of information available this year!

Please note that these numbers don’t include any new members added through informal recruitment.

the AOII # is incorrect. It should be 63. I assume this was a mistype during data entry.

[33girl]

Well, ASA certainly screwed this pooch. 🤬 Why we wasted money renting some office when there were empty fraternity houses to be had all over the place, I will never know.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, ASA certainly screwed this pooch. 🤬

LOLOL!

[shadokat]

ASA did so well at the start, I was shocked they never tried for a house. Thank God DPhiE snatched up the Tri Delta house. Of course who knows what happens when they wanna come back!

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, ASA certainly screwed this pooch. 🤬 Why we wasted money renting some office when there were empty fraternity houses to be had all over the place, I will never know.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, ASA certainly screwed this pooch. 🤬 Why we wasted money renting some office when there were empty fraternity houses to be had all over the place, I will never know.

Most of the fraternity houses aren’t fit to live in, yet alone for a sorority. Sigma Kappa is currently in the old kappa sigma house, and one of their members was saying that when it’s hot out, you can still smell beer & urine in the basement.
I’m not sure where sigma kappa will go when kappa sigma comes back.

[lake]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

...one of their members was saying that when it’s hot out, you can still smell beer & urine in the basement.

So gross.