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Spring Rush
By Nolina Bergman
Special to the Online Forty-Niner
Alpha Omicron Pi
sorority at Long Beach state has their spring recruitment.
"Rush"
is a process in which potential sorority and fraternity members
dress up and visit Greek houses, hoping to be picked as members.
The process happens in the fall semester of school. For Alpha
Omicron Pi, normally a smaller chapter at Long Beach State,
needed to have a spring rush to meet its quota.
"We are excited
because we got four new girls", said recruitment chair
Carrie Rosplock.
The recruitment
process lasted three days, where the grand antebellum Greek
house on 8th street presented themselves with class and dignity.
"They did
a really great job and I am looking forward to seeing the
new girls in action this semester", said Lisa Morse,
Panhellenic recruitment chair..
Alpha Omicron Pi
is hoping to continue the recruitment process by Continuous
Opening Biding, a procedure where girls interested in the
sorority can join all semester long.
"I am hoping
they get more girls and increase their numbers", Morse
said.
Competition for
members can be hard, with seven national sororities on campus.
The six other chapters are supporting Alpha Omicron Pi as
much as they can.
C.C. Taylor, a
member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority at Long Beach State,
said, " We need every sorority to help each other. If
we are going to have power in the Greek system then we need
to focus on quality not quantity", said C.C. Taylor,
a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority at CSULB.
About 33, 000 students
attend California State University Long Beach, and about 400
girls rush every year.
There are fourteen
Greek organizations at the university--seven sororities and
seven fraternities. In sharp contrast to the six other sorority
houses at Long Beach, Alpha Omicron Pi has the lowest number
of girls.
"We hope they
continue to increase numbers so their chapter can do well
for fall rush," Morse said.
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