dzsaigirl,

The Houston Delta Zeta site is terrific! Y'all have done a wonderful job! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

My suggestion for getting more girls interested in Rush, if you haven't done this already, is to set up individual sorority tables during Orientation for incoming students, as well as tables that are set up during campus tour days. Have several sisters manning the tables, wearing letters of course, to talk about Delta Zeta and Greek Life in general so that the girls will know that there are Greek options for them to explore. If you can plant the seed early in their minds, they'll have a while to think about Rush.

Also, one thing that the North Georgia Panhellenic Association started this year was to hold an informal meeting for all female graduating high school seniors who were planning to attend schools in the state with Greek Life on campus. The meeting was called "It's All Greek To Me" and was advertised at the area high schools in the form of flyers, on the radio, and in the newspaper.

We invited alumna representatives from each of the NPC sororities to come out and decorate a table with their sorority memorabilia. The women were available to answer questions about their organizations and show the seniors the positive aspects of sorority life. Refreshments were served, and goodie bags were handed out that included Interesting Facts about Greeks, our anti-hazing policies, academic requirements, and other information that the girls and their parents could use to learn about Greek Life.

I think it was a great way to get girls interested in Rush, and because we held it just before their high school graduation we were able to reach a lot of girls at a time when they would start thinking about college and what they wanted to do when they started at their new schools.

Hope this helps you a little! Good luck with RUSH this year!!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Thank you for all of the awesome compliments on our page. It is actually under contruction, so a lot of the pictures and stuff are not even on there. Check back every so often and our web person is sure to have made some other additions http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

At UH the greek system has people at orientation with tables, etc. There are info sessions, a thing called Cougar Craze, people handing out apps and brochures all over campus and in their classes, banners, and everyone in their letters. Greeks hold almost all of the student gov offices and are extremely active on campus. It's just that the general student body at UH is uninvolved and doesn't tend to get involved because 1) they have their old friends from high school and don't want to meet people or 2) They work to pay for school and don't have time/$$$.

I hope that this year we can reach more people and they will see how awesome being greek is!

Thanks for the support http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

I visited the Houston DZ site- you girls have a lot to be proud of. Especially making quota. You need to have panhellenic do a survey asking girls why don't they want to rush? What are they looking for when rushing etc. Best of luck.

Hey, dzsai, great website! My cousin was president of y'all's chapter back in the fifties and I can still remember her and her sisters having Frontier Fiesta practice at my grandmother's house!