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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 2000)
Greeks looking for a few good women and men H The Greek Life Office is busy with ways to improve the Greek system and recruitment strategies to attract more students By Sarah Cohen for the Emerald Interested in meeting new peo ple, going to dances and raising money for charities? Then think about participating in Recruitment Week with the University Greek System. Recruitment offers the opportu nity for students to become famil iar with the different Greek houses during “rounds,” a time for stu dents to tour the different houses and meet their members. Each day of Recruitment Week has a theme — for example, Activi ties Day provides skits and slide shows, while Philanthropy Day highlights the importance of chari ty work, and each house showcas es its specific charity. Sororities and fraternities also stress the social issues they are in volved in — each house has an ed ucational program once every term that focuses on social change. Past events have included sexual as sault awareness, promoting diver sity and helping to sponsor “Take Back the Night.” Amanda McCulloch, a journal ism major and the vice president of recruitment for sororities’ Panhel lenic Council, said that Recruit ment Week is designed “to make it as fun and easy to adjust to Greek life as possible.” This year, fraternities are shoot ing for 350 students to participate in recruitment and sororities are r hoping for 450. Recruitment efforts started with mailings to incoming freshmen and the Greek Telephone Project, in which Greek members phone prospective new members to pass on information about Re cruitment Week. New tactics are being used to at tract members this fall. For exam ple, McCulloch said, sororities have postponed their Recruitment Week in order to “give the women time to adjust to school” and make the whole process more comfort able. Alison Peabody, a junior mem ber of Alpha Chi Omega has experi enced both sides of sorority recruit ment. “I was more nervous rushing people than I was going through rush,” she said. “I felt like if I did n’t get a full sense of who someone was, it would affect my house for a longtime. It’s a. lot of pressure. I had no idea how much work went into everything. We practice for al most two weeks before rush starts.” The fraternities are trying to have potential members “spend more time with the individual chapters,” so that everyone gets a better feel for the recruitment process, said Marcus Pope, a journalism major and the Interfraternity Council’s vice president for recruitment. In addition, fraternity and soror ity leaders are trying to emphasize the idea that living in a Greek house is comparable to living in an This Greek house may look empty now, but during Recruitment Week the joint, among others on campus, wHI be jumping. apartment. The average yearly cost of living in a Greek house is $4,300, which is less than the dorms. There are no utility bills to pay, which further helps with the cost of living. There are also schol arship opportunities for members in a house to help defray costs. McCulloch and Pope both said they want to stress to potential members that the Greek system no longer fulfills the “Animal House/Revenge of the Nerds” stereotypes, referring to two pop ular movies about college and Greek life. People who want to join a sorority or fraternity need to have a minimum 3.0 GPA out of high school and once they are accept ed, members have a minimum GPA they must maintain to re main in the system. “Things are changing because of Select 2000,” Pope said. Select 2000 is a contract that in dividual sororities and fraternities sign,.guaranteeing they will be dry — serve no alcohol at the houses — and that they will try to uphold the positive values that the Greek system has to offer. Currently, all sororities and five of the 16 frater nities are dry houses. McCulloch and Pope said that Select 2000 is not responsible for a lack of membership that caused one sorority and two fraternities to close last year. Both pointed out that the defunct houses all had their own “individual problems” unrelated to going dry. The pair stressed that Greeks Turn to Greek Life, page 9B 009795 Textbooks 35-50% off list price RrjlI„vour textbook information B ,oSmith Family Bookstore • Author • title ' • Edition We’ll help yo« filul "serf C°PTU’S l(llll ...ill sore yo" fW'iey! 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