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came easily once the initial ten
sion was broken.
"It’s easy to talk to the
girls. They’re all really outgo
ing because they want to get to
know you,” said freshman Tina
Jacobsen.
And from the inside, Pi
Beta Phi member Angela Elden
said, "The first day (of rush) it’s
really hard. But the second day
you get to know them (the
rushees). It’s really not small
talk after the first day.”
However, freshman Katie
Clawson said despite welcom
ing attitudes, when rushees
found themselves short of con
versation upon meeting a
sorority member, they could
lose their bids to that house.
Clawson explained that
such brief visits to each house
also could mean only getting to
visit with one house member.
‘if she’s not talkative to
you and you’re not talkative to
her, she can say ‘she didn’t
talk,’ and you can get dropped
(from that house),” Clawson
said.
Johnson estimated about 20
percent of the women who sign
up for rush don’t join houses,
either because they don’t want
to join a house, they can’t
decide on a house or they don’t
get chosen by the house they
want to be in.
“The houses can really
make you feel one way or
another,” Johnson said. But
with 11 houses to choose from,
rushees can hopefully make at
least one connection.
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Rush took on a more formal
air this year.
While rushees last year
could visit any house at any
time, formal visitations are held
every evening this year, with
daytime open for drop-ins.
“This year they must see
every house through a struc
tured process. Last year they on
ly had to see about half of
them,” Vance said.
But Vance said the change
provides a clearer picture, since
not every man is meant for the
same house.
Also making the selection a
more serious decision is the
“dry rush policy,” which the
local fraternities adopted four
years ago. “There are too many
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problems with rushees drinking
and making the decision of
what house their going to be in
the next four years,” Vance
said.
In addition, over 50 percent
of this year’s rushees gained
greater insight to the fraternity
system through the Resident
Rushee Program. In its second
year, this program allows
rushees to live in a fraternity
during rush week so they can
fully experience the Greek
system, he added. Boarding at
the Phi Psi’s during rush helped
freshman Wade Blackburn af
firm that “fraternities might be
fun.”
Interfraternity Council
Rush Chairman Jay Halverson
said rush is “a great way to
meet people. I have a lot of
friends outside the fraternity
life, and I have met a lot of them
through the rush process.”
With the number of
students rushing this fall due to
a 13.5 percent increase in
freshman enrollment at the
University, Vance said informal
Spring rush will be less
demanding.
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