THE DOOR CLOSED ON The week-long visitation was replaced with a three-hour, fourth-round reception. Before fall 2018, visitation was a week-long event where new members were encouraged to visit all of the members of their respective club in the members' dorm rooms. In spring 2018, che Interclub Council (ICC) decided to shorten the week into a three-hour, fourth-round reception for the fall 2018 club process. Assistant Dean of Students Kara Abston said that she heard positive feedback from many clubs immediately following the fourth-round receptions in fall 2018. "We had found that a lot of the older members felt as though that was a lot of time for them to sit in their rooms and wait on their schedules for someone to come by and visit," Abston said. "After club week, we will cake all che notes we've been given, ideas and discussions, and we work through [chem] in the spring." Senior Felicia Bueno, vice president ofwomen's social club Pi Theta Phi in fall 2018, said she set up visitation in speed-date style, putting current members in groups of six with four new members and having the new members rotate every 15 minutes. "It was definitely very draining," Bueno said. "But instead of having to commit your whole week, ... I think it was nice for everybody on campus to know that everyone was committing three hours on Tuesday, and after that, we were fine to get to do what we wanted." Senior Caleb Carney was "chief," coordinator of Club Week in fall 2018 for men's social club Beta Omega Chi and reserved every room on the second floor of the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Business Building for members to occupy, and he told potential members to visit as many rooms as they could during the three-hour period to get as much oneon-one time with members as possible. "1 understand why we needed to do something different this year," Carney said. "If we can't do dorm room stuff, then this was the next besr scenario in my mind because it gave us the freedom to structure it howeverwe wanted to do it instead of it being imposed on us from a higher level." Carney asked members of his social club how they felt about the fourth-round reception after the three hours, and he said he received mostly positive responses regarding the change. Senior Madison Ramsey, one of the vice presidents of women's social club Delea Gamma Rho in fall 2018, led the potential members through a speed-dating event in which each new member rotated one at a time through groups of two to three current members on blankets in the Claud Rogers Lee building and felt that, even with the three hours allotted for the event, people still were not able to meet everyone. "When I was going through visitation [in 2015], I got to authentically meet people," Ramsey said. "Going into their homes, you get a better idea of who they are and how to relate to them. While I think fourthround mixers were more convenient, it was less beneficial to both old and new members." story by Maleah Brown 53 I RECEPTIONS
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