A bit about recruitment...

Upon entering the Kappa Delta room in the Copley Marriot Hotel during the week of sorority recruitment, you’ll be greeted with the smiling sisters, uniformly clapping and singing. It all looks so effortless, but behind this year’s recruitment, there was a team and a chapter working for months to make sure KD put their best foot forward.

Recruitment team started their work way back in April. We started to throw around a lot of ideas: Could pink and lime green be combined? Did we really have to use the empty Girl Scout cookie boxes from last year, or could we find an excuse to eat another twenty boxes? In all seriousness, we were meeting weekly and in constant communication to make sure everything was perfect.

Katie and Kaela

I ran night one of recruitment (Go Greek! Night) with my fabulous partner in crime, Kaela. Despite Kaela being in California over winter break and me staying in Boston, it was as if we were next to each other the entire break with the amount we communicated. We crafted and crafted (every Kappa Delta’s dream) and by the time night one rolled around, we created a pretty cute room, if I do say so myself.

I want to end this post with some shout out’s to the people who worked to make this recruitment happen- all of the ladies of recruitment team, you were phenomenal! Kaela, Daisy, Kara, Ashley, Morgan, Lyssie and Diana- the chapter is lucky to have you guys. Gina and Ali, the talented artists, made our doors so gorgeous that it almost made me not want to go into the rooms at all. Sara decorated all of our nametags and they got progressively cuter everyday! To all of the ladies behind the scenes, we truly appreciate ALL of your hard work. As always, thank you with all of Eta Phi’s heart to our VPM’s Juliana and Tammy. Your time, dedication and enthusiasm are the reason we have such an amazing Gamma class.


Katie Urban, Alpha Class

The other day I got to thinking about relationships...

A note from Cait Forker, Alpha Class

...recruitment will do that to you.  Beyond the cheering, the decorations, the slideshows, and the towering black heels, there lies a deeper reason why we all come back day after day, often for more than 16 hours at a time.  Some call it an estrogen-fest.  Guys think it’s just plain crazy.  And while recruitment may seem a bit confusing to the outside eye (especially for those poor souls staying at the Copley Marriot), to those participating, it is whirlwind of emotions and excitement and an intimate look into the various sisterhoods that comprise Boston University greek life.

         For us at Kappa Delta Eta Phi, we are still the newest kids on the block.  This newness gives us an incredible energy that is palpable to the potential new members that walk through our doors on the first night.  We preach a love for Greek life, a world that many of us in the Alpha class never imagined we would ever be apart of.  Greek life at BU has embraced us and has given us amazing opportunities and relationships that may have never been.  Every time we lined up for a new party to come through our doors, there were giggles, chatting, dancing, and general absurdities going on in the room.  For those in charge of keeping us on time, it may have seemed annoying and meddlesome, but for me, it was a perpetual reminder of the genuine and loving relationships that that conference room held.

         As the nights went on, the lists of girls returning to our room became smaller and smaller, and the promise of new sisters became tantalizingly close.  The night of preference was a particular stressful one for me.  I was annoyed I had leave class early and peeved that I had to blow money on a cab, but as soon as I walked into the serenely decorated room, all it took was a quick inside joke from a friend to put a smile on my face and remind me why I was here.  Never more had I wanted to share this incredible sisterhood with new girls.

         On preference night, one of the girls I talked to hit me with the best question I had heard during all of recruitment. She asked me why some of us preach the fact that we are not all sorority girls when in reality we are all members of a sorority.  I was simultaneously taken aback and impressed with this hard-hitting question.  I had to be quick on my feet and find an answer that was satisfying, yet logical.  I told her that yes, we are girls in a sorority, but Kappa Delta is blend of personalities that is unconventional and real that it is almost impossible to label us as sorority girls beyond our sporting of Greek letters.  Recruitment is a yearly reminder of the incredible friendships in my life I didn’t even know were possible.  As I see freshman wandering aimlessly around campus, it is my hope that they can find friends as wonderful as the people I found in Kappa Delta.

The sisters of the Eta Phi chapter of Kappa Delta,
Philanthropy Night Spring Recruitment 2012!