ASA Recruitment Rules survey
As with previous years, the ASA this year had recruitment rules that, in short, forbade ASA-recognized groups from recruiting during the three weeks leading up to the ASA Midway. (The full recruitment rules, along with some potential updates for next year, are at http://web.mit.edu/asa/rules/recruitment-rules.html.) As with the last several years, this year we revised the rules to try to make them clearer and easier to both understand and enforce. We would like to get feedback from groups about these rules while moratorium is still (relatively) fresh in your minds.

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What group are you answering for?
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This Year's Rules
How do you think this year's rules compared to previous years?
1: Much worse
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5: Much better
Clarity
Fairness
Interference with normal group operations
Enforcement
Clear selection
What examples should we add or clarify?
We supplied a list of examples (http://web.mit.edu/asa/rules/recruitment-rules-examples.html) to clarify what counted as recruiting. What did we leave out? What's unclear?
What about the rules seemed unnatural?
One of the vague goals of this years rules was to let groups act as they would during the rest of the year, while not allowing them to start recruiting until the Midway. Were there aspects of the rules that forced you to act differently or weirdly?
In general, what about the rules seemed particularly good or bad?
Necessity of rules
People occasionally suggest we eliminate the recruitment rules entirely, and let groups recruit whenever and however they wish.

We've historically resisted these suggestions, for a variety of reasons, such as:
* Incoming students tend to be very busy during Orientation. Huge amounts of student group recruiting might overwhelm them, or unduly distract them picking and settling into their new dorm, learning how MIT works, etc.. Forcing groups to do recruitment a week later may spread out the excitement of the start of term without substantially reducing the enjoyment or value of any part of it.
* Limited availability of early returns: The ASA had only 20 early returns to distribute among about 400 recognized student groups this year. We don't have nearly enough early returns to allow each group to have people back on campus when recruiting would tend to start up.
* Availability of students to help with recruitment: Many students are busy for most of the summer. Many groups, particularly smaller or more casual ones, might be unable to find people willing to go back to campus early to run their recruitment, even if early returns were a non-issue. Those who do come back often need to concentrate on dormitory REX, Orientation, or FSILG work week responsibilities.
* Fairness between groups: by having the recruitment period start with an ASA-organized event, we help ensure that groups big and small have a relatively even playing field to recruit more members.

We'd like to get feedback on how necessary groups think the rules are
Should we have recruitment rules at all?
Definitely not
Definitely yes
Clear selection
Why or why not?
Other
Anything else about the recruitment rules?
While you're here, anything else about the ASA?
What can we do better? What could the ASA, or the rest of MIT, do better to help student groups? Would you like to join us?
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