Excerpts from the August 9 online student paper:
Entire article at:
http://www.redandblack.com/2010/08/0...or-pnm-influx/
August 9, 2010 by DALLAS DUNCAN
Filed under Featured, Greek Life, News, Student Groups
Seven days. Seventeen houses. Sixty-eight counselors — and more than 1,100 women working their way toward new friends, “family” and unique collegiate experiences as Panhellenic sorority recruitment hits campus. . . .
Megan Janasiewicz, a student affairs specialist who serves as advisor to the Panhellenic Council, said as of July 12, 1,156 women were registered for recruitment.
“We think we’ll probably get to 1,250,” she said. “Last year we had 1,208, and the year before that close to 1,300.”
Out of those 1,250, Janasiewicz said each sorority would have a quota of between 54 and 60 new women. She said mutual eliminations occurred at the end of each of the three rounds PNMs go through during recruitment, where PNMs rank their top sororities and sororities rank their top PNMs.
. . . Janasiewicz said besides complaints about the weather, the main feedback her office gets is from parents asking why their daughter did not receive a bid into a certain sorority.
“Unfortunately, we have moms that think the world is going to end,” Janasiewicz said.
She said she tries to tell PNMs to think for themselves if their relatives or friends are trying to pressure them into choosing one sorority over the other, or choosing to withdraw from recruitment or not. . . .
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