Bid Day Pics! - Page 8

smiley21 · #**106** 09-08-2007, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I agree...did Greek Life used to be a lot bigger at your school? It just seems crazy to have FOUR chapters at a school where you have 24 girls show up to Formal. I know no one likes to see a chapter close, but if I was at HQ, I don't think I could rationalize keeping a chapter like that around....unless the chapter didn't have a house and managed to stay completely out of debt.

The irony is that 71 girls signed up for recruitment which was a record. For the first night 15 girls did not show and by the end, only 31 girls got matched with a house, but I am not entirely sure of the exact number of who accepted bids.

UGAalum94 · #**107** 09-08-2007, 11:16 PM

That does sound like something went wrong.

Did more girls get completely released by the groups or did more girls drop out?

smiley21 · #**108** 09-08-2007, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by UGAalum94

That does sound like something went wrong.

Did more girls get completely released by the groups or did more girls drop out?

Both. Each group was only allowed to invite a certain amount based on what they needed. It sounds good in theory, but it seriously hurts because we are all competing for the same girls. Also, PNMs don't like their invites so they drop. That makes the number of girls left drop even more.
That is one of the reasons why I do not believe that this release figure system is good for a small school. The end result worked out in a way, but I just do not agree with this process.

Cluey · #**109** 09-08-2007, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I agree...did Greek Life used to be a lot bigger at your school? It just seems crazy to have FOUR chapters at a school where you have 24 girls show up to Formal. I know no one likes to see a chapter close, but if I was at HQ, I don't think I could rationalize keeping a chapter like that around....unless the chapter didn't have a house and managed to stay completely out of debt.

I would kindly suggest that you get more information before you make a statement like that.

UGAalum94 · #**110** 09-08-2007, 11:39 PM

I think chapters that size would be really cool, especially if that was just the average size on that campus.

But I think that they should probably not think in terms of a regular formal recruitment necessarily.

honeychile · #**111** 09-08-2007, 11:42 PM

Granted, I'm not familiar with the Recruitment at this school, but why on earth is Total so high, if none of the sororities hit it by just taking Quota?

Sounds to me that this whole Recruitment needs to be discussed at the next Panhellenic meetings, complete with Quota & Total revisions. But that's just how I see it.

SoCalGirl · #**112** 09-08-2007, 11:43 PM

While I agree that it seems like the release figures may be part of the issue, I think the bigger problem is girls dropping out who weren't released. It seems like there needs to be more effort at the CPC level for everyone to promote greek life in general. Hopefully that will get more girls interested in all groups instead of one or two.

AOII Angel · #**113** 09-09-2007, 10:17 AM

Maybe NPC needs to find new ways to recruit girls into the system. Just sitting back and waiting for them to come may not cut it! My alma mater went from having house totals of over 100 when I was there to 30 in less than a decade. There were years when quota was set at 5!!! My pledge class had 28 and the year after me had 36! Panhel started advertising and having information days on campus. It seems to have worked. House total is up to 75 and quota this year was 22. There are 3 groups on campus. Unfortunately, the weak chapter on campus when I was there closed during this time. I guess it was hard to keep the chapter going when you couldn't attract the 5 women that you were allowed.

exlurker · #**114** 09-09-2007, 06:57 PM

Did anybody else instantly think, "Elle and Bruiser?" Or is that ancient history now?

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Originally Posted by smiley21

Jacksonville University - Alpha Delta Pi

Our Bid Day dog :-)

UGAalum94 · #**115** 09-09-2007, 07:18 PM

I just thought, every GLO should have a bid day dog.

SWTXBelle · #**116** 09-09-2007, 07:19 PM

My chapter had a giant stuffed dog named "Bucko". One year, he was in the composite with a top hat.

Benzgirl · #**117** 09-09-2007, 07:53 PM

When I was in school, te ATOs had a dog named Jasper. Jasper went to class nearly every day, not only with the brothers of ATO, but with whoever would take him. Profs seemed to get use to the idea with one exception. Often, Jasper would become disruptive in class by snoring too loud.

joliebelle · #**118** 09-10-2007, 07:38 PM

Gamma Phi Beta at Jacksonville did get 9 girls through formal recruitment, and here they are

before we got our girls:

(Im the brown one in the front)

and, after we got our new members:

UGAalum94 · #**119** 09-10-2007, 07:48 PM

You all are so cute and everyone looks so happy!

Benzgirl · #**120** 09-10-2007, 10:12 PM

What a great group of girls! Congrats to all of the new Gamma Phis>