The Michigan Daily - Thursday, July 14, 1983 - Page 5
Sorority clinic coaches rushees

By CHERYL BAACKE
"What should I wear to the rush parties tonight?"
This crucial question is asked by thousands of
women at colleges nationwide every fall as they
prepare for the trying process of sorority rush
MARGARET ANN ROSE has asked that all-
important question, but now she has some answers
which could give women who want to join sororities
an edge on making a good first impression.
Rose, a former sorority member who graduated
from the University of Texas at Austin in May, is
teaching Sorority Success Seminars in Texas to coach.
women on getting invited to a sorority.
"Once you make a good first impression you have it
made," said*Rose. "Year after year I've seen girls
who didn't get in at all.
"GIRLS DON'T understand they need to sell them-
selves as well as sororities selling themselves."
The four-hour seminar which Rose teaches for $50
includes a fashion show and lessons on making con-
versation.
Although Rose said she would consider teaching
her seminar at the University, Panhellenic Advisor
Mary Beth Seiler said she doesn't think the lessons
are necessary..
AT THE UNIVERSITY, rush is more "laid back"
than in the South. "I don't think you need to dress a
certain way or talk a certain way to go through
rush," Seiler said.

"I'm not saying there's not competition - of course
there is," Seiler said. "But sororities (here) are
looking for a variety of people in themr chapter and
that's the way it should be."
'Year after year I've seen
girls who didn't get in at
all. Girls don't understand
they need to sell them-
selves as well as sororities
selling themselves.'
-Margaret Ann Rose
sorority seminar leader
Rush involves four sets of parties before women
pledge a sorority. At each party sorority members
decide which women to invite back ; rushes also pick
which houses they are interested in.

THE PROBLEM, Seiler said, is women get cut
from the houses they want to join which Rose said her
seminar can remedy.
"It is selective, but almost any organization is. Sin-
ce sororities are filling up they have to be selective,"
Rose said.
Rush parties usually last less than an hour, and
although Rose said sorority members can't make an
accurate personality assessment in that time,
rushees must make a good first impression.
ROSE HAS taught five seminars in Texas with 10 to
25 women participating. Most women ask what to wear
and how to get recommendations from alumni to help
them get invited to a sorority.
Priority during rush is usually given to women who
have had family members or legacies in the sorority.
Rose's seminar also brings in a professional make-
up artist and prepares rushees for potential
questions sorority members could ask.
"BEING AWARE will put them in a better
position," she said. "Maybe they won't have so much
anxiety."
But Rush Chairperson of Alpha Chi Omega at the
University, Nancy Klemperer said rush is not based on
how women look or talk.
"What makes (rushees) most nervous is 'will
(they) fit in?"' she said. "As rush chairperson, I look
at whether a person is academically motivated, do
they possess leadership qualities, and will they get
involved and add something to the sorority."
Most sororities are looking for girls that are bright
and can add something to the house, Klemperer said.
salary increase

Regents to vote on tuition, faculty
(Continued from Page 1) ONE REASON the salary increase is Robert Sauve, assist
heads a committee on faculty salaries, not larger, is that the University held estimated that $260,000
said that while the University is the tuition increase to 9.5 percent, the will come from cuts in
keeping pace with public universities, it smallest hike in the last three years. Education; $100,000 from
is rapidly falling behind the private The relatively small increase came Natural Resources; $
schools with which it is compared. about when the state had a change of the School of Art; $250,00
The $7.8 million salary increase does heart - after years of declining ap- stitute for the Study of N
not give specific percentages for such propriations, it awarded the University dation and Related Disab
and administrators. In keering wirke a nine percent, or $13 million, allocation closed in June; and a sm
eeping increase this year from the Institute for L
University's policy of giving increases dustrial Relations.
based on "merit," Vice President for This year's efforts to apply Univer- Another element of this
Academic Affairs and Provost Billy sity money to "high-priority areas" is is a request to increas
Frye said the increase is not an "across the second phase of a five-year plan to students' tuition $100 per
redistribute $20 million for a new computer systerr

ant to Frye,
of the budget
the School of
the School of
$60,000 from
0 from the In-
Mental Retar-
bilities, which
naller amount
abor and In-
year's budget
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'term to pay
in.

Sauve called the idea a "prototype"
which may be extended to other depar-
tments in the University.
The proposal is being modelled after
programs at other schools such as Car-
negie-Mellon University, which now
requires their students to buy personal
computers. But the fee will enable
students to avoid paying the price for a
complete computer. Students will have
unlimited free use of the computers on-
ce they have paid the fee.
The computers will be installed at
several locations on Central and North
Campus.

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Regents
to vote on
post merger
(Continued from Page 3)
botany department from 1963 to 1968. He
served as associate dean for LSA from
1968 to 1974, acting LSA dean from 1970
to 1971, and dean of Rackham since
1974. He also held the post of vice
president for academic affairs from
1979 to 1980.
The merger came about after an
eight-member committee headed by
Harold Johnson, dean of the School of
Social Work, suggested that duplication
between the two units might be reduced
if the posts were combined.
Sussman's plans to retire in early
1984 offered a chance to test the idea
before committing the University to a
long search to replace two positions
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