Spare, more or less generic Rush shirts
 

Mu Zeta Colony will be using NAFD as a rush activity. Give that money is tight, as is time, the thought came up that if another chapter had some fairly generic Rush shirts (Rush LXA without a school name) that were spare to their needs MZ Colony could buy them from the other chapter much quicker than having new ones made. Thinking photo ops with letters and food bags. Thoughts? Offers?

John,
Any thoughts to DIY shirts? all you need is a color printer, the screen print paper and an iron. We used them for a hot tub-a-thon years ago and they worked fine.

Time crunch
 

We have a colony of 10 men, no corporate knowledge, a campus of 17,000 undergrads, NAFD in less than three weeks, and mid-term exams. Getting into T-shirt design at this point is a bridge too far. A purchase of excess shirts will fill the immediate requirement - and that is the optimum solution this year.

Ok bro, just trying to help. I dont think you'll really find extra generic rush shirt since the standard format is to put a year and school on them. but i hope you do. if you change your mind i'll be glad to help design something with you.

I appreciate the offer, I really, really do. And we'll take you up on it the next time we look at doing shirts. Mike Smith, a Master Steward out of Denver has forwarded a graphic to us that will get us through the next three weeks. Our guys have never done food drive before - they've not done anything Lambda Chi before. Our time is short and our task list is lengthy!

That which is worthwhile is difficult

Any luck with the shirts?

Mike Smith sent along a generic graphic - but if you have something . . .

John, best chance on shirts is to reach out to other chapters in the conclave. Reno, Davis are closest to you. Ours are very OSU-ish. Also, check with your local food bank, our county food bank gives credit for donations ($1 = 15 pounds). Donations from parents/alumni would help get the bros started. Also, is there a small sorority they could approach as partners? Maybe not a NPC group (they tend to be big).

Sorry to crash, but I've been watching this thread. If money is tight, what about a chapter shirt of generic letters? If everyone is wearing the same letters, it will look uniform and still advertise your chapter.

No problem crashing - it is a time issue, not a money issue. We have an event in a couple of weeks and there isn't enough time to design a shirt, organize the event, vote on the shirt, do the event, pick up the shirt . . .

Getting a ready to run shirt is the optimum alternative right now

RaggedyAnn hit it on the nose. Just use Letters. How about getting t-shirts and using iron on. Make them large enough to stand out from a ways away. Would be a less costly way and weather should be fairly warm there. One thing we do is at usually homecoming is put card board barrels at the gates with letters on them. Have someone there with them in letters. Adv. in the school paper/web site/local newspaper. Since it is a charity event, you may get all the space free and possible local TV for a nice peice.

Time and manpower limits
 

In this case we have a time and manpower shortage. With ten Associates and food drive coming up 3 weeks post colonization, we need to leverage what we can to maximize our NAFD results; there is only so much labor and effort available. We came up with a graphic from Denver that I believe is being used. The barrels with letters are a great idea for the dorms - football games are off limits - and I suspect that the guys are scampering about trying to do this.

No offense or anything, I know that NAFD is our national philanthropy and it is important and all, but with 10 AMs shouldn't you all be focusing more on recruitment. You don't even have enough members to makeup a high zeta. Unless you are all planning to use NAFD a rush event, then I can see spending the time and effort on it.

Yup, it is being used as a rush event.

John, I guess my question would be is there a feeling of recruitment in doing this? Have they found enough people who would be interested in doing this for charity sake and join? Shame that they cannot do it at games. Would worry about leaving canned goods at dorms unless may the girls dorms and they could get B F to help chip in. How about any sororities helping?

Hard to say what they are going to be doing - I'm 70 miles away in Sacramento. Going to have a chat with the Alpha on Thursday for a "howgozit" check

Are the ELC's still there? Shouldn't they be helping out with ideas and contacts? I thought Lambda Chi was changing its expansion program by opening less chapters each semester so the ELC's could spend more time focusing on each colony. Lately chapters seem to be opening up with less than 20 members.

My interest group can tell you right out, that the elc's did a terrible job at whitewater, they came in the fall of 2008, they were here from the beginning of september to about the end of september. The first bid they gave was right before school started, the second one wasnt given out until a week after rush, there were three more bids handed out during that final week they were here. My interest group is now at 13. So, is the elc's really helping out, I think not. So when I read that the group over at Berkely only has 10 guys, I was not surprised. Doing the NAFD might not be the best recruitment tool, but it is a good way to get the guys who would be serious to join, but they also want to see they can have fun. I would have the guys to a rush event that inolves bowling, pool, etc.

Sorry, but disagree with you. This could be a way to show pnm what we as LCA do for charity and not just a party house. Many times doing for others will bring those who would be good for the chapter. Then when the project is over a celebration can be held for the troops! Glad you like the idea of the barrels and working with a sorority is a plus as they have a soft spot for guys who do things like this. Maybe even have barrels at the other sorority houses if they will let you.

I am not disagreeing with you, you should do the NAFD as a philantropy/charity event. What i am trying to say, is that PNM want there to be balance of both serious, and fun, i never even said to throw a party or anything, all i said was to show that there is a serious side, which you guys have covered, and a fun side, like going bowling.