San Jose State Update: After 2 events we have about 15 guys we're interested in. We still have two weeks to go and plenty of guys to meet. Unfortunately school started on a Thursday, so by Friday the campus was dead and only three of us fraternities actually had events (DU, Pikes, and us). I'm sure by Monday things will be back to full swing and Rush will get big. Our bid goal is 25-30 with 20 guys getting Knighted.

We might try adding a Riley University type day to our Candidate program for like a Saturday. If you don't know about Riley University I recommend you talk to National about it, it basically teaches you Fraternity crisis management...

Things are going well at Central Oklahoma. No numbers yet, but what I hear is very encouraging.

One thing IFC recently changed was that we can't hand out bids till the day before rush week ends. They want to stop the "dirty rushing" and give everyone an equal chance. They are starting to implement the same rules to IFC as the sororities. The way I see it, if you can't get guys to come to your house and want to rush it, then you need to change something or do something to capture peoples attention

That's great to hear Kevin. And if you find out anything about OSU or OU pass it along please. I'm very interested in OU to see if they are rebounding still. Not so worried about OSU's numbers :rolleyes:

OU should be doing well with that recent 1.5 million makeover for the house.

So far so good @ Eta Chi chapter... we have about 12 interested guys, and our first event isn't until tonight.

We're media-blitzing campus this year. Facebook, ODU TV (3 of our bros are working for the channel, including me), the student paper, and all 55 of us are out there in letters, in rush shirts, etc. every day.

This is going to be a huge semester for us. It has to be... we're losing 40% of our guys to graduation by May.

Kevin, I knew they were going to do some work on the house, but had no idea they already started, or that it would be 1.5mil worth. Nice.

HX766 - Good luck brother. I hope you guys pull a monster class.

Just got back from the event... excellent turnout! We had a total of about 80 guys there (including brothers)!

This looks like it's going to be a good semester.

Actually, they finished a couple years ago.

It's VERY nice on the inside.

Still looks iffy outside :)

I was going to say.... I was on campus not too long ago, and it looked a bit rundown from the outside. I haven't been inside in well over 10 years.

Our Rush is in mid October, but so far we've had easily the best recruitment semester in my memory. We have have a number of guys who have flat out said that they are extremely interested, and several others who are asking the lead up questions. We've got a great buzz going on campus, which is great since in the past we've sort of floated under the radar. I'm extremely excited by the turnaround, and psyched to see the level of momentum we have going into Rush.

No firm news yet, as our Rush doesn't start til the 9th...but, we definitely have alot of people that are interested and have been over to the apartments to hang out.

...also, it kinda sucks, we only have 1 night... since we don't have a house yet (colony and all) we're going to be doing it at either the Phi Mu house or the Delta Delta Delta house (which is good because they're both power houses at our campus)
, but, we only have 1 night due to them having to completely abandon their house until we're done (IFC/PHP/NHP rules here).

That is extremely cool that they would help you guys out like that. I hope it goes with the Tri-Delt house. I've got a thing for those gals :rolleyes:

Haha, well, if you like that, get this... one of the 2 for-sale houses on campus (actually, the main house we're looking at wanting to buy) is right next door to the tri delt house....actually less than half an acre away. :D

LSU chapter (Phi) took around 16 guys. Not bad considering they are just getting back on that campus.