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
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