With the weather reaching its highest temperature of the day at 20 degrees Fahrenheit, bundled up potential new members piled into the Diag Sunday afternoon to find out which sisterhood they’d call home for their next three years at the University of Michigan.
LSA senior Sophia Herman, executive vice president of the University’s Panhellenic Association, began bid day by explaining that PNMs would have to run to a certain corner of the Diag depending on which sorority’s name would be written inside their envelope.
The crowd consisted of 1,512 PNMs — the largest in University history — waiting earnestly to receive their envelopes. They gathered beneath the Hatcher Graduate Library steps, listening to each of the sororities’ chants. Each PNM would be offered a bid to one of two sororities they had narrowed down to throughout rush…