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Poster Name:
Wise

<strong>Subject:</strong><br />Changes are needed<br /><br /> Poster Message:
Panhellenic needs to make three major changes to the rush process: 1) Stop promoting a "Spring Informal Recruitment Process" after recruitment for gods sake like it's a secondary rush. No tabling, no advertising, no lists of participating sororities, just let sororities handle it on their own on the DL if they have a few spots to offer. Otherwise it just leads people on. We currently have a 69% bid rate of those starting out rush to those getting a bid because people drop out thinking they can get what they want in COB. They can't. They need to consider where they are actually wanted during rush and give those sisterhoods a chance. The best chance anyone has for a bid is during formal recruitment and that is what needs to be emphasized. 2) Allow a separate upperclassmen quota so second and third years don't have to compete with freshmen for quota spots. Great girls get cut just because they aren't a highly desired freshman, or don't rush at all, and then think they can get a COB. Let them get bids with everyone else during formal rush. Lots of other schools have this upperclassment quota system because it works. 3) Have a Variable Quota for a couple of years. This is a tried and true method at many other schools that have a huge disparity among chapter memberships. It restricts the number of invitations from stronger recruiting houses in rush and allows higher Quotas for houses that need to beef up their memberships. Combined with a lower Chapter Total, meaning only houses that really need members would be allowed to COB, it would allow pnm's to seriously consider other houses for membership that they wouldn't normally, and allow those to increase their sizes over a few years. Otherwise pnm's are still holding out false hope for a bid they aren't going to get from a few houses. Combine all three of these and the bid rate will go up to 90% of all pnm's who start the process. There will be fewer ways to dirty rush and promise COB's because everyone will know who isn't going to COB in the first place, all houses will have equitable member sizes, sorority life will thrive. These technique have been proven to work. We no longer have bed rush, we need to take the next step.