First off, do not limit Yourself and You Organization to a specific Group of people it You want to establish and grow.

While that is at Your Groups discreation, only You can make the decision.

Come to the realization that there is intermingiling and why limit yourselfs?

If You do, then say goodby!:(

We as GLOs have changed over the Years. Cant You?

Have you thought about co-sponsoring an event, like a philanthropy or any small program, with a dorm?

In response to your recruitment bootcamp remarks. I thought Dave Stollman was an excellent speaker, and the mini bootcamp he went through in a lecture on our campus was excellent. Although I can see how it would be difficult with only 9 members. But the main way he talked about recruitment was this 5 step processes:

1. Introduce yourself
2. Make them your friend
4. Introduce them to your friends
4. Introduce them to your organiztion
5. Ask them to join

Also, Stollman is very loyal to those who went through bootcamp, and your brothers should be able to contact him for advice. My brother Jamie htat went through bootcamp does it all the time.

On my campus, several fraternities have had similar problems with low numbers and difficulty recruiting. This past fall, one chapter's nationals instituted an ingenious idea, they got all of the sororities involved!

They had a competition with several diferent catagories.
1- They handed out "Go XYZ!" pins to all the sorority ladies and would have brothers sit at tables around campus where you could check in with your pin attached to your shirt or backpack- 1 pt. for each girl checked in went to each sorority.
2- Banner contest. Each sorority made a Go XYZ or Rush XYZ type banner and hung it in plain view on their house. Each Banner was ranked 1st-6th place (six sororities) getting points on down for the ranking.
3- Sisters coming to open recruitment events. 1 pt. for each sister at open recruitment i.e. their BBQ and the casino night they held.
4- They had a recomendation contest. Sororities submitted names of men they thought would make good XYZ's so they could be personally contacted and invited to events. 1 pt. per name.

At the end of the recruitment period, a winner was announced, and the guys of XYZ cooked dinner and served it to that sorority, serenaded them and made them a really nice banner for their house.

A good way to keep men once you've pledged them is by mixing with sororities. We helped out a few this way by inviting them over to the house to play Taboo, Charades or Pictionary and have Pizza. They response from their social chair was that they really enjoyed not only hanging out with us, but getting to know a lot of new women really quickly, easily and painlessly.

Hopefully these will help!

I forgot to add that they gpt 20 new brothers with thia program... up from 8!

This is on a campus with about 4,000 student 33% of them greek (men and women). Not too shabby for one fall recruitment!

Just read this... my campus... it REALLY worked!!!

use your sorority friends to help you in MEETING new men. We have to learn how to start a conversation with someone we;ve never met and do it 15 times in one day. If nothing else this will help you get your foot in the door when you go out to meet new men, whether it's around campus, at an event or whereever. The Conversation starter is the hardest part.

I know this thread is incredibly old, but I was just google surfing and founding it and thought some of you might want an update.

The strategy we decided to adopt was one of basically suspending all other activities to focus on recruitment and basically starting the whole chapter over. Since most of us were graduating within the next year, we set out to find the core of the "New ZBT". Also, we learned that a bunch of freshmen would be starting school over the summer and decided to target them.

Beginning with the last few weeks of spring term and continuing throughout the summer and into the fall, we had barbecues in strategic locations close to freshmen offering free food to anybody who came. During the summer these were advertised prominently in the school newspaper. This enabled us to build up a solid list of potential guys. Also, we sent out a good mailer to every incoming freshman, however, every chapter at our campus does this, so you have to just to keep up with the Joneses. BTW, I graduated and moved out of state after the Spring so everything after this I've just heard from the people who are still there.

For Fall Rush we rented out the President's Box at the football stadium. This location was not only swanky and offered a view of football practice, but it was pretty close to a lot of freshman dorms and separated us a bit from the other fraternities who had houses. Whenever we rushed on campus near other houses when we didn't have one, I always thought it made us look really bad. From that fall, we got 8 new brothers, 7 freshmen and 1 junior. We only had 2 actives going into that semester, so we theoretically grew the colony by 500%. We continued a similar program into the fall, gaining 4 new members during spring rush, one of the top spring rush totals on campus. We currently have 14 brothers, most of which will be sophomores, and they will be moving back into the on-campus house next year. I'm really proud of them and looking forward to returning to my chapter, which was once on its deathbed, next year for their first Homecoming back in the house.

I'd like to point out that this strategy in no way involved Sorority help. I stated before that with 8 sororities and 32 fraternities, they aren't really willing to help, but some of the people here really couldn't understand that. Tech is an extremely unique campus and it took us awhile to figure out a method that works there.

Congrats :)