Monday, August 13, 2007
The time-honored tradition of sorority recruitment has gone digital.
This year, the application and selection process for Panhellenic Association formal recruitment will use a new online system. Potential members filled out an electronic application before Rush Week. After each round of recruitment, chapters can turn in their choices using the online system.
Christy Steinbrueck, Lake St. Louis, Mo., senior and vice president of Panhellenic sorority recruitment, said the system made her job easier. She said that in past summers, Steinbrueck and her colleagues had to type in all the information from the applications, and it would take most of the summer. With the new system, it all downloads into a spreadsheet.
“The new system has made things a lot easier, and it’s a lot faster to get info out to chapters,” Steinbrueck said.
This semester about 780 women will go through the formal sorority recruitment process. There are 55 trained recruitment counselors who will help the potential members through the process.
While the women are formally introducing recruits to their chapters and entertaining them with songs and skits, the fraternity men will welcome their new members. The majority of freshmen men moved in during the weekend to get acquainted with their brothers and to participate in Hawk Week.
Michael Gillespie, Ashland junior and vice president of recruitment for the Interfraternity Council, said it was important for the men to be exposed to their fraternity and to the University before school starts. He also said men’s recruitment wouldn’t be going completely electronic anytime soon because fraternity recruitment traditionally occurred during their senior year in high school.
“It would be beneficial,” Gillespie said. “But there’s not necessarily a need for it since formal recruitment numbers are lower for us.”
This year the Interfraternity Council had 86 formal recruits. Gillespie said that was the highest number they had ever had. Last year they had 72.
Gillespie said the council had been working to increase those numbers. They have been going to high schools and doing classroom presentations to educate young men about fraternities. He said they were trying to break the stereotype that fraternities are all parties by emphasizing the philanthropy and camaraderie.
— Edited by Dianne Smith
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Rush Week goes high-tech
This sounds like a great idea, similar to what www.FraternityLive.com and www.SororityLive.com offer - in fact these sites have all sorts of features to help beyond recruitment, like chatting and finances - for free! It's great to see Fraternity and Sorority Councils taking this approach to organizing chapters :)
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