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_Carolina News__ Fraternities to hold spring rush by Kelly Haggerty Assistant News Editor Once again, the time has come for fra ternities’ and sororities’ spring recruit ment. Fifteen of the 19 fraternities will be recruiting new members from 8 to 10 p.m. Jan. 18 to 20 in McBryde Quad. Director of Greek Life Gena Staggs said it would be more relaxed than it is in the fall. i “Basically, it’s very informal. Any guy can just show up and visit any fraternity that they want to,” Staggs said Unlike fall recruitment, which re quires rushees to meet all fraternities par ticipating in formal rush, spring recruit ment allows interested males to talk to the participating fraternities that they want to meet. This will take place Jan. 18 and 19. Students must be invited back Jan. 20 and can talk only to those fraternities to which they received invitations. “I would encourage students to start at one end of the Quad and work their way around” Staggs said “They should try to talk to all fraternities. They should ask questions about community service, schol arship and leadership,” Staggs said ‘Any guy can just show up and visit any fraternity that they want to.’ Gena Staggs Director of Greek Life The four traditionally black fraterni ties also elect to do their own advertis ing for recruitment instead of participat ing in the organized event at McBryde. Fraternities housed in the Quad will be stationed in their lounges. Other fra ternities will set up tents in the courtyard. “Everyone puts out a nice spread, maybe calling a catering company,” said John Floyd, vice president of recruitment. “It’s just about letting the fraternities get to know the rushees and vice versa.” Floyd said he thinks joining a frater nity would be a positive influence on a student’s life. “Fraternities have a bad reputation. The good really outweighs the bad, though. It will definitely help you out in the long run if you join a fraternity,” Floyd said. Most fraternities will offer bids Jan. 19 and 20 to prospective members, Floyd said. There isn’t a limit to how many men fraternities can-offer bids to. However, spring recruitment tends to be smaller than fall recruitment. “During the spring, not as many peo ple rush. If we had 50 to 60 guys show up, I think we would be pleased,” Staggs said. Last fall’s recruitment included more than 400 students. There will be an information meeting at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18 in Russell House Room 203 for all interested male students. Sororities’ spring recruitment will be handled differently from the fraternities, according to April Mann, a graduate as sistant with Greek Life. “It’s done more as a chapter-by-chap ter basis. Chapters usually recruit on their own,” Mann said. Bookstore from page A1 ecampus.com, which has a partnership with the Russell House Bookstore. Un like at Addam’s, students can’t pick up the books they order online at the Russell House. Books ordered through ecam pus.com come through the mail. Ecam pus.com has also started a multimillion dollar advertising campaign to catch up with the other online textbook compa nies. Bigwords.com has spent hefty amounts on a new ad campaign doing wacky com mercials with MTV’s Tom Green. “I usually use the S.C. bookstore be cause they are conveniently next to the law center, and they usuallyhave all the law books I need But once online book stores catch on, they will be a good al ternative to on-campus stores,” said Matt Lester, a third-year law student. When comparing online companies’ prices with campus bookstores, there are some deals on the Internet. When com paring several books at Addam’s, Russell House, S.C. Bookstore, ecampus.com, bigwords.com, efollett.com and varsity books.com, bigwords.com had the cheap est books on average. The only drawback is that on a few of the books, there was as long as a two-week waiting period. Var sitybooks.com, which sells only new books, had some of the highest prices on the In ternet. On campus, of the four books The Gamecock looked for, one was cheapest at the Russell House and the three oth ers were cheapest at the S.C. 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