Beta Psi (WVU) just finished up with recruitment and had the Pledge Ceremony.

They handed out 27 bids and ended with 24 guys, 2 deferments. I went to the first meeting to check them out and see what I though, and I was impressed. Pretty diverse group. Engineers, Pharms., Biology, etc. 2 black guys, 2 Koreans, and kids from all over the US.

Not to be picky but why even mention race? We do not need to keep this type of information. I would have left it at diverse group and the majors. I am guessing the blacks guys would have easily fit into "kids from all over the US" group.

This is of course unless I am missing some Beta first: first Korean to ever pledge, first Sudanese to ever pledge or African prince pledges Beta.

Just one brothers opinion.

well, its nice to have a group with different backgrounds to bring to the table...

I agree
 

I agree it nice to have a good cross section or varied representation.

I just thoughth it was not needed to be identified. There are too many lawyers and judges that would use that particular posting to represent Beta Theta Pi as a whole and cost us money in defending ourselves needlessly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't WVa coming down to Pirate country tomorrow for an ESPN-2 game?! GOOD TIMES!

Epsilon Alpha (East Carolina Univ) just finished formal IFC Rush last night @ Midnight. We got 4 guys through that. We expect more throughout the next week or so of informal recruitment.

Oldest Pledge,

If I made some remarks how I was pissed off that my chapter was allowing that to happen, then that would be bad. I'm happy that we have some diversity because often times non-white students (at least on my campus) never even consider joining a fraternity.

ECUJacob,

I'm hoping to make it to that game if possible. I'm in VA right now with the Army and I don't think it would be that far of a drive for me to go.

Coramoor,

If you (or your brothers) need a place to tailgate, party, sleep, etc, please feel free to let us know and we'll glad to help you. We're always willing to hang out with other chapters!

OK
 

OK. I am cool with this. I am happy that there is diversity as well. I grew up as the minority up to 7th grade (basically an 80/20 split in school) so I am sensitive to all the labling issues. I prefer to be called Euro-American rather than white (I am a pale tan, thank you).

Hm
 

here at San Jose State University, we had our lowest fall incoming pledge class in the past 4 years. We have 6 new pledges but already have guys who want to join in the spring. I am the recruitment chairman for the 06-07 yr and bust my butt and saw little results. So the new tactic is to rush during the fall and pledge a lot more guys in the spring. It would be cool to rush during the summer but we have too many commuters and that option is not available to us. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

So, this thread is a little old, but I figured that you'd all be at least interested in finding out more rush results. I'm not a Beta (If I were male, I'd totally want to be though), but I'm very close with the Beta chapter on my campus, and since none of them post on GC I'll let you guys know for them.

The Lambda Kappa - Beta Chapter (Case Western) had a very successful rush this semester, I'm not sure how many bids were extended, but they wound up with six quality men in their pledge program. Two of the pledges are sophomores, the other four are freshmen. Since the semester is now coming to a close, the active chapter is starting to get excited about their trip to oxford and cincinati for initiation (they really do get excited about it, and I bet taking a trip like that is a great bonding experience). If all six pledges are initiated, the chapter will have 16 members, which seems small, but is stellar for them since (as I'm sure at least some of you know) in recent years they had gotten very small, as in at the start of the Fall 2005 semester there were four active brothers, and all of them were seniors. Through lots of hard work and dedication the members of this chapter are working on not only getting numbers up, but keeping their brotherhood strong, they aren't just handing out bids to anyone who shows up to stuff, in my oppinion if a chapter had to be almost 100% rebuilt by sophomores, you couldn't have picked a better, more dedicated group of guys.

Sorry for the amount of writing there, I love that chapter quite a lot so I get excited for them and want to share.

I do wish that the General Fraternity would dedicate more resources to Recruitment.

My chapter for instance went from 17 guys to 70+ in a very short time because we worked on recruitment all the time. If the G.F. really took time to spend time with chapters and work with them most of the problems we have would be worked out.

Recruiting Help
 

I whole-heartedly agree. When I was with the Indiana State Univeristy colony in '83, I felt we were on our own. I never met anyone from the three nearest chapters or national. No one ever came to our events (OK, they were only two social events that semester).

We were competing with a new Pi Kappa Alpha chatper and I think Tau Kappa Epsilon has just recruited a whole Freshman dorm floor. My mind may not have the full time-line with TKE coming to ISU.

If an equal amount of effort was given to helping chapters recruit as there is with the targeted expansion, I think our Brotherhood would be well served.

I will leave the details as to which chapters are "selected" for recruitment help for anther thread.

You can throw money at a chapter, resources at a chapter, alumni help and AO resources...etc. If you have a chapter that is apathetic, lazy or just plain old bad, no help will get them to recruit better. It starts from within. The chapter MUST want to recruit, and nobody but THEMSELVES can recruit for them. My chapter is a perfect example of this.

True. However, there can exist, at times, situations where a Chapter is honestly trying yet not succeeding.

It is these chapter that need to be identified and helped.

this is too true. A lot of times it is the campus that is lazy and apathetic. A lot of campuses are dominately GDI, and changing that doesnt happen over night. However, I will say that there isnt much the AO can do, when the AO come to help with our recruitment, we just end up re-explaining everything, and it all ends up redundant.