Spring Break
Sororities surge as fraternities falter
Sororities attract largest pledge numbers in three years; fraternities see drop-off
Issue date: 2/21/08
Dorothy Sheppard, associate dean of students, echoed Turning, saying, "When students see a solid organization, people doing good things in the community, they want to join that group."
Nonetheless, fraternity involvement remains down for this year. Last year, pledges rose from 142 to 155. Currently, it stands at 152. "Our decrease this year is not dramatic, but we are worried a trend may be developing," King said.
To increase Alpha Delta Phi's future pledge classes, Kurz hopes to start reaching out more to non-athletic students. "It's something that will take time because we're pretty much labeled as an athletic fraternity," he said. "It's a slow process, but it's something we're trying to do."
"We're not necessarily working to increase number of pledges," Funk said. "We work every year to improve rush process and maximize our ability to attract freshmen and even some sophomores, to make operations run more smoothly."
Upperclassmen pledges remain low. "Over the past two years we have had one upperclassman in each spring pledge class," he said.
Upperclassmen generally avo-id spring rush because they primarily pledge with freshmen, according to Wasserman.
King agreed. "I think the mindset people have is to pledge with their age groups," he said.
Nonetheless, fraternity involvement remains down for this year. Last year, pledges rose from 142 to 155. Currently, it stands at 152. "Our decrease this year is not dramatic, but we are worried a trend may be developing," King said.
To increase Alpha Delta Phi's future pledge classes, Kurz hopes to start reaching out more to non-athletic students. "It's something that will take time because we're pretty much labeled as an athletic fraternity," he said. "It's a slow process, but it's something we're trying to do."
"We're not necessarily working to increase number of pledges," Funk said. "We work every year to improve rush process and maximize our ability to attract freshmen and even some sophomores, to make operations run more smoothly."
Upperclassmen pledges remain low. "Over the past two years we have had one upperclassman in each spring pledge class," he said.
Upperclassmen generally avo-id spring rush because they primarily pledge with freshmen, according to Wasserman.
King agreed. "I think the mindset people have is to pledge with their age groups," he said.
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Jeremiah
posted 2/22/08 @ 5:03 PM EST
I don't know if this has been explained previously, but as an outsider, I'm curious why the JHU athletics department forbid its students from pledging fraternities. (Continued…)
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