That is awsome! i can only hope for the day that we can say that. i didn't make it up to school last weekend for move in but this is what i've heard so far.

Saturday was move in for all freshmen, the chapter did a lot of dorm storming, ran a dunking booth with a info table at the move in carinval during the day. the school had a night event so we piggy backed on that and then had a dodgeball game afterwords which drew 150 freshmen. Sunday was cookout and football, things to keep meeting people. Not sure about yesterday but i know there was a going greek at umbc meeting for everyone interested in greek life and i know we had a couple brothers talked and have our letters out there. Tonight is a casino night and the majority of the dealers are brothers so hopefully things go well.

I'll let you know how things turn out when i find out.

I think the SEC chapters need to start some kind of competition. I know we used to have one with Ga. Tech in the 70's. Have some rotating trophy to the SEC champions or something.

PS can you PM me with your phi's email address so I can talk to him.

THANKS AND ZAX
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Yea I will give you our phi's e-mail address next time I talk to him, we are making a new contact list that should be ready next week.
That would be a contest because I think the SEC schools have the most people go greek, it doesn't mean SEC chapters are better or anything but the only conference that comes close in numbers is the BIG 12, having large numbers of greeks and a lot of people that rush. I can verify that because I am from Chapel Hill, and the average fraternity at UNC is 50-60, Lambda Chi Alpha is one of the biggest chapters at UNC if not the biggest but they tend to have large classes, large classes are not a priority at UNC, quality and tradition is. NC State and Duke, the average classes are 10-14 people. Florida State gets bigger classes and the greek scene there is a lot like SEC schools, our chapter is huge at FSU.

We have some big chapters in the SEC: Auburn, UGA, LSU, UT, Arkansas, Florida. I know UK just got a good class, 21 guys or so, we had a brother from UK come up for initation last spring.
I really wish we had a chapter at Ole Miss, in my opinion the most pro greek administration, best greek traditions and overall best greek school in the country. I talked to an ELC a few years ago and he said you need to have 80 people to start a chapter there it is so competitive, I knew most chapters had over 120 people at Ole Miss.

I am just blabbing but that would be cool to start an award it just sucks because a lot of schools greek administrations our different, some put fraternities on probation left and right like UT's, Arkansas and LSU for small offenses, this can really hurt the numbers that rush for that given year and who knows what a chapter could have done with recruitment numbers on an even playing level.
PS I just stopped by the house andfound out a couple kids signed bids but held them until the spring{very common here}, so we have 30 guys, so you guys beat us by one, congratulations.

Its my understanding that UT-San Antonio will sign between 20-30 AM's. Thats what I am hearing anyway. I am going to the Alumni BBQ tomorrow. They wont know how many will sign until Tuesday or so.

UIW is in recruitment right now, however they are on a defered rush. They will extend bids on Tuesday. Even though I am the advisor, I cant hazzard a guess. I am not sure enough in their recruitment capabilities or guesses yet, since this is their first rush ever. UTSA, they've been doing this for years, so when they say 20-30, I am pretty sure they will get it. UIW's goal is 12. That would bring them to approx 40 men.

UT-San Antonio extended 34 bids. They expect to sign 30 guys.

The Pref Dinner was cool and they have a good group of diverse guys. We'll know by about wednesday or so how many are gonna sign.

gamma chi.... u of ark.... 41

Yea, I think we might have a winner!:cool:

LX Z has as of Sun 4 NA and 2 who are committed =6.
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Must remember, we are in a membership crunch at the present time.

But all members of the House Corp felt really good for the first time in a long time about the upswing that is coming back to LX Z!

Hey except for BN who went through 2 HurryCains what can they do but dig in and give the Windy Stuff Hell and Keep going as I have heard that they are doing!:)

Yeah Tom we are doing fine here. We associated 6 men on friday and there are about 10 more that are about to accept. It was tough with the first hurricane cancelling rush, watermelon bust and a party and the second hurricane postponing our indentured servant auction to a time yet to be determined. I would only assume that they would have accepted if they could have seen what we are all about during rush, but they will see when we do NAFD at the end of the month. By the way, we have school on satudays until nov 13th and we lost our fall break. Yeah it sucks but we have to remember that things are acheived "naught without labor". Oh, I almost forgot, it looks like we might be getting a house come January!!!!!!!!

Zach, say what???? House????

Sounds good on Recritment considering HurryCaines that Yall went through!:)

Give My Very Best To All Of the BN Bros at FIT! Drink one for Me at The Shroom! For Sure Z!:D

Yeah the house is in the early stages but our main obstacles, like the administration are on our side. Right now it is being remodeled by the professor that owns it. The professor is also a very well liked, well respected and overall nice person to do business with. He was very excited that we were interested in leasing the house and he said he would give us a break on rent. Also our housing chair has set up a damn good comittee to help him in this process. If we don't miss something somewhere (and I dont think the brothers involved will), we should be moving in come the spring semester!!!!!

THAT IS AWESOME! I'll be happy for you guys when you get a house.
Don't remember if I posted it or not, but UF had 30, now 27 AMs. We will be initiating Nov 5 if anyone would like to visit...

i am from Lambda Iota Zeta and we gave 16 bids out two weeks ago. The great part is that they are all real solid guys.

Well 9 AMs went through the AM Ceremony here at UofT... we will see how many make it to I (usually one or two drop because of marks and/or time commitments).

Phi-Delta Zeta at UMBC is associating 10 guys on sunday. pretty good semester for us.

our formal rush begins next tuesday. Bid day is Friday!