Panhellenic met Monday as a “full council” to discuss recruitment, said Director of Student Activities Shelby Coxon.
“Two or three times a year, we get together,” Coxon said. “Each chapter sends their adviser, president, Panhellenic representative and recruitment chairs.”
Coxon said the full meetings are to keep everyone on the same page.
“We just touch base and keep communication open,” she said. “At this one, we talked about recruitment.”
Coxon said the women discussed the recruitment schedule for work week. The theme for 2006 recruitment is “In a league of our own.”
“We discussed recruitment guidelines and got feedback if anybody had questions,” she said. “It’s just nice to have these a few times a year with the adviser and everybody.”
Coxon said changing the name of the Rho Chis to Gamma Chis was a decision made by Panhellenic members.
According to its Web site, www.rhochi.org, the Rho Chi Society is an academic honor society in pharmacy. Because of this, Coxon said the women decided to change the name to Gamma Chi, which is used at several universities.
“(The Rho Chi Society) started to really grow, so I let the Panhellenic women choose the name,” Coxon said.
Sophomore Brooke Brutto, representative for the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, said one topic of discussion concerning recruitment was Facebook.
“Facebook has caused more problems,” she said. “We’re holding (sorority) members accountable.”
Brutto said Panhellenic has asked all sorority members to set their Facebook setting to private so only their friends can see their profiles.
“We cannot tell a girl to not be on (Facebook), but we have to be careful,” she said.
Brutto said one change for recruitment is how infractions are dealt with, as promises by members of certain sororities have led to those going through recruitment placing only one house on pledge cards on the final night of recruitment.
“We’ve had problems with girls being promised a house, which leads to suicide bidding,” she said. “So, instead of saying, ‘You’ve got a spot at Alpha Chi Omega,’ we’d say, ‘We’d love to see you back at Alpha Chi Omega.'”
She said the bylaws for recruitment have not been seriously looked at in about a decade, so they were in need of revision and discussion.
Brutto said she would like to see more women who go through recruitment find the right sorority to belong to.
In other Panhellenic news, members met at the usual time Tuesday to discuss business as usual, Coxon said.
“We talked about recruitment, the logo for our T-shirts and work week,” she said. “It’s always good to have these decisions made before the summer.”