[18338] in APO-L
Re: Big/Little Matching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Cyclone)
Sun Feb 15 20:20:12 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:18:33 -0500
Reply-To: The Cyclone <gt0622a@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
From: The Cyclone <gt0622a@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980215121741.0080ad50@popmail.voicenet.com> from
"Seth D. Fulmer" at Feb 15, 98 12:17:41 pm
>
> At 09:19 PM 2/14/98 -0500, The Cyclone wrote:
> >In my chapter (Gamma Zeta - Georgia Tech), we let our pledges choose their
> >bigs. They make a list of their 3 top choices and then the pledge
> >trainers try to match them up to their first choice. If there is more
> >than one pledge that chose the same brother, then we try to determine
> >which would be best suited with that brother and give the other pledge
> >their second choice. Every once in awhile, we have to go to the third
> >choice, but it almost never goes beyond that. Usually, both the bigs and
> >littles are OK with the matchup.
> >-Martin
>
> I'm curious...How do the pledges know the brothers to even make even one
> choice let alone 3 choices? Right now, I attend the meetings and service
> projects of Mu Eta chapter because I'm on CoOP, and the pledges know the
> brothers somewhat...but like even me..I've spent more time with the
> brothers than the current Pledges so far and I only know half the chapter
> by name. When I pledged the only person that I knew was the Membership
> V.P. The pledgemaster was trying to calm my fears before the initiation
> ceremony but I was thinking "Who is this person?" Now, there's a
> possibility that you do a better job of acquainting the pledges with the
> brotherhood during RUSH so that they can make this choice, but I'm just
> asking :)
> Take care and Have a Great Day!! :=)
>
The pledges make their choices toward the end of the quarter (which is
near the end of the pledging period). By then, they have gotten pretty
well acquainted with most of the brothers. We require the pledges to
interview 90% of the brotherhood during their pledging, thus allowing them
to get to know most of the brothers. Our chapter is also still fairly
small (25-30 active now, which is high for us), so there aren't all that
many brothers to get to know. I guess with 100 or so brothers, this could
be much more difficult, and it would also be hard for the pledges to
interview so many brothers.
In L, F, & S,
-Martin
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