Senior Jay McKenna, president of IFC, said each of the 16 on-campus fraternities will release final bid acceptance results Feb. 8, after the newly implemented week-long recruit deferment period.
In addition to the new deferment period, this year’s IFC rush process featured a slightly shorter schedule, a “Meet and Greet” with all of the fraternities before the individual chapters’ open houses, open scheduling for recruitment events and a computerized notification system for rushees.
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Despite new housing for DTD and Chi Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon President Garver Moore, a senior, said the “Meet and Greet” gave every fraternity an equal opportunity to lure recruits.
Nonetheless, some fraternity representatives said certain rush changes may have negatively affected their recruiting results, while benefitting other chapters’ numbers.
Theta Chi Rush Chair Sam Broder-Fingert, a sophomore, said although he is “very pleased with the quality” of the fraternity’s recruits, “the system prevented us from having the quantity.”
“[The open scheduling for events] gave frats with more money an advantage,” he explained, noting that larger fraternity’s with more funding could afford to host a greater number of events and thus have more opportunities to woo recruits than smaller fraternities or those with less funding.
This illustrates two universal tendencies: a) Thems that has - gets, and b) Some folks are just never satisfied.
The Chronicle Online - Rush ends, reactions of frats vary
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