sorority vs fraternity rush

Thanks for responding! I think NPC recruitment needs a massive overhaul. While what you describe sounds less than ideal I think what is currently offered is also less ideal. I don’t know where the balance is though. I do feel that a lot of houses miss out on a lot of women that could be incredible assets, and many women are quick to decline a house that they would most likely feel at home in, because of the way the recruitment process works. Not only at Ole Miss but all schools. The houses women only see in the first round could very well be for them but because they only have 20 or so minutes of exposure outside of social media and what they’ve heard from others on both sides of the equation, I think so much potential is lost.

I have participated in recruitment as a PNM and an active, and while I don’t have knowledge of all the inner workings, I still think things could be improved. I definitely see what you’re saying, a lot of work goes into making recruitment what it is. Maybe that is the problem. Maybe it needs to be more organic. Recruitment definitely functions very efficiently as is, and I know great strides have been made to maximize women’s options and opportunity. I am certainly not disgruntled, I very much enjoyed my time in my sorority as a collegiate member, but I would love to brain storm more potential ideas as to what else could be done to improve the process. Like you said, nothing will make everyone happy and my opinion is just one of many. Maybe “massive overhaul” was poor phrasing, I just wish there was some way to inject more time getting to know PNMs in person and the PNMs getting to know the houses in person.

Do you really believe that this is an actual issue, needing more time for pnm's to be at houses? For what? What, exactly, is the problem? Ole Miss already has deferred recruitment so that's a head start right there. 1/3 of all students here go Greek and sorority memberships have been bursting at the seams for years with chapter memberships among the largest in the country. Two sororities have come on in the past 6 years and are thriving, so much so that another is coming on next year. And every house has enough money for a multi-million dollar mansion. By all these measures used to assess successful recruitments, Greek life here is thriving. If you are looking for a sorority-related project to make a difference, how about taking on this terrible website, where anyone is allowed to post or comment gossip, lies, individuals' names, and get paid for not only removing these things that are supposed to be against their own site policies, but to rake in money from advertisers who buy on here because of the traffic, many of whom are schools with Greek life whose own students are getting bashe? How about brain storming a way to expose this site to the media, shame the advertisers and do some landmark good that would really make a difference?