Life is like a box of chocolates, but even Whitman’s Samplers give you a diagram of what you’re going to get. Likewise, fraternity and sorority recruitment is something few go into blind.
Fraternity rush officially began Jan. 6, and although it will run through Jan. 10, more than 200 students have already accepted bids to join chapters; meanwhile, sorority rush will run from Jan. 8 through Jan. 13. Whether you’ve already chosen the house of your dreams, or you’re just praying not to get something with nuts in the middle, check out our Greek Recruitment 2009 Guide and please, stay warm out there.
Correction: According to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, the Chi Phi fraternity brothers were temporarily evicted from their house at 550 Lincoln for failing to install their sprinkler system. Chi Phi is holding their Recruitment activities in Kemper Hall. Thanks to commenter Anonymous for noting the error.
wow, sae is good looking. goddamit NU
hop
January 8, 2009 at 8:48 am
SAE is one of the most insular/unappealing fraternities at NU
Jacob
January 8, 2009 at 10:40 am
Rush DELT!
Jacob
January 8, 2009 at 10:40 am
I love how the means of evaluation meant to ‘guide’ us in recruitment are the number of people, what kind of grades they get, and whatever three words any asshole wants to say about them. Oh, and a lovely picture of a brick building.
Chuck
January 8, 2009 at 11:39 am
Wait, I don’t understand this. How do you rush if you haven’t gone to events all week? Or can you even if you haven’t been able to make it? Where do people even get these questions answered?
Ginger Brew
January 8, 2009 at 10:51 pm
This ‘recruitment guide’ is both irresponsible and inappropriate. While not explicitly saying that the guide is fact, by associating these ideas with the reputation of NBN, it implies truth. The three ideas in the upper right corner are not the result of a poll, or at least not one with a sample size large enough to merit publication. Rather, the authors probably just polled a few of their friends, and wrote down whatever they said. How can a chapter be both shy AND social? Why do readers get so many more choices for sororities than fraternities? And what is appropriate about publishing sorority dues? I’m sorry NBN, but there should be a distinguishing characteristic between you and one of the gossip blogs, and I really don’t see that.
Anonymous
January 8, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Hi Anonymous,
Thank you for your opinion on the Recruitment Guide. The three adjectives that show up are controlled by our readers. You choose an adjective to describe each chapter, and the three most selected adjectives show up. As of a few hours ago, there had been approximately 1,000 votes.
Lisa Gartner, Editor-in-chief
Lisa Gartner
January 9, 2009 at 12:43 am
Amused that almost all the frats have “good-looking” guys…
not bad
January 9, 2009 at 6:57 am
I think these rankings are pretty good. Except, there should have been some negative adjectives for some houses, but whatever.
Da Truth
January 9, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Damn sharp NBN. I’m impressed. This is really cool.
Dan Fletcher
January 10, 2009 at 1:00 am