Why go through the motions?
by: Why Bother
There's a girl from my Mississippi private school who will go through Ole Miss recruitment this year. I imagine she will be first on one [top] house's bid list. She's from a very rich, well-connected family and has multiple relatives who were or are in this house and who are heavily involved at the alumni level. She has multiple cheer friends who are already there and multiple connections through other schools. I cannot imagine there is any doubt that she will run home to this particular house.
So why make her go through the whole spectacle of recruitment? Why not let houses have the option of bidding 5-10 girls right off the bat?
We can talk all we want about going in with an open mind, but it's obvious that girls come here with specific ideas of what house they want and that for at least some girls, the feeling is very mutual and there's no doubt where they will go. It just seems ridiculous for all involved...
#1by: skippy
You mean skip the line and go straight to the VIP section? Yeah, that's a great way to foster sisterhood and close bonds in a new member class. Not to mention discounting the chapter vote process that gives all members a say and those who don't know a pnm the chance to talk with her and make their own ranking. Same goes for the pnm, just take the pre recruitment bid without meeting other members to be sure. And forget membership equity, just let all the sororities offer bids to those same girls in a free for all pre rush cage match and make a quota of 5-10 just for that and any sorority who doesn't fill that quota gets extra in the actual recruitment to make up for it. Or maybe double extra because they lost the extra special pnm's. Great, thoughtful, well considered idea there.
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by: Seriously
This response seems a bit over the top - granted there's probably not a way to let certain PNMs "skip" rush, but anyone who is familiar with Ole Miss greek life knows that at least in the "top" houses it's hardly a democratic one-girl-one-vote process - that sounds nice but in top houses, alumni have a LOT of say and there are absolutely girls who are practically guaranteed bids based on their connections. (And in houses this large, there is no way every member can possibly know every girl on the bid list well enough to have formed an opinion, or even at all.) But none of that is said out loud so yes, even PNMs who know where they're going have to go through the process.
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