While we prepare for informal Fall recruitment, I've asked my girls the same question several times: What is the difference between a sister and a friend?
In informal recruitment, the pressure to produce PNMs is greater, since there is no major marketing campaign managed by an external group (like Panhellenic). Sisters are responsible for calling on every Sophomore, Junior, friend, colleague, acquaintance, and person they stood in line with at the student center to offer an invitation to attend recruitment. If they are smart, they only submit names that are the best of the best. This is great, unless someone else in the chapter doesn't agree with your opinion of this woman. Then, things get sticky. Please keep this in mind:
- Sisters are like friends, but are held to a higher standard. Sisters are supposed to share the same values as a thread of thousands of women in the world, held together by greek letters.
- Sisters are responsible to others in regards to dues, time commitments, and a certain level of secrecy.
- Sisters are leaders, not followers.
- Sisters are prideful, but do not boast.
- Sisters are the future of our organization, not just the past or present.
Take heart and be strong if your friend is not offered an invitation to recruitment. This does not mean she is a bad person, or your fellow sisters don't like her. She just might not be the perfect fit, and that's fine. Being a sister is hard work. Responsibilities can often feel like a burden, and if she wasn't the best fit in the first place she could back out entirely. Sisters endure the good times and the bad, but the bond of sisterhood is strong enough to keep them there.
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