Summer Rush 2004
 

Okay, my summer rush thread from last year (here) was a moderate hit with the GC rush crowd, something different not done or been seen by most people. Since there are some new people who missed it, I've decided to chronicle the summer rush season once again.

This week is finals week (one more to go tommorow for me...in 5 hours). Friday of finals week means that rush apps are given to the houses from all the guys who have sent them in. Should get them tommorow around noon. The process begins with sorting out who the rush chairs are going to call right away, and making sure to pull the apps of guys that are known by members of the house already.

Since I'll be staying in Lincoln this summer I'll be able to post more regularly than I did last summer.

A lot of things are similar, and I'll post a rush schedule later of the types of events we have and where they're at. But of course with new rush chairs there are some new wrinkles as we try to complete our pledge class.

If you have questions about summer rush, please check out my thread from last summer. There is a very complete post from me at the top of the second page. As always if those don't answer your questions, feel free to ask, I realize that for many of you this is entirely foreign way of doing things.

Sounds like a plan neighbor..

good luck in the coming months!

There is no place like Nebraska
 

Betarulz!

You did a great job last year and I look forward to reading your 2004 rush thread.

FYI: I did my graduate work at UNL in the early 80's. Even back then, Beta was one of the top houses. Not only did y'all have the respect of the the Greeks but from the rest of the campus and the Lincoln community as well.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

I LOVED your thread last year. So happy you will post another one!!!!

GOOD LUCK!

Okay, Rush is already going at near full steam.

Being in Lincoln this summer, I'm already seeing a difference between my vision of rush this year compared to last. I hung out with the rush chairs last night and so got to hear all of the going ons for bascially what was day one of the rush season.

I also have two guys that I work with that are going to be going through rush this summer and so will be able to add a little about what they are going through.

Basically so, far there were over a 130 some rush apps in by friday, which was the last day of our finals week. This is a very positive sign as it was almost 40 more apps than were turned in last year at this time. Plus there seems to be a lot more out of state guys goign through.

I know that a lot of houses were making calls on friday afternoon due to the guys from work (we'll call them J and D for short - these are made up initials btw) J told me yesterday that he had three lunch meetings already set up for this week with different houses. I haven't talked to D yet, but I'm slightly disconcerted b/c the rush chairs said they didn't see his app. However I'm encouraged b/c the little sister (a lovely ChiO) of one of last years rush chairs gave her approval of D. Considering she got 5 of her friends to sign with us last year, and had approved of at least 3 or 4 others she knew from various conferences and all, she's pretty much like a de facto chapter member. So we'll see what happens.

As for the rush chairs, 2 of them already had 6 meetings with rushees set up each. The other one has 5 so we're already having 17 guys to meet at the end of Day one. Today I know the rush chairs were goign to spend a lot of time cleaning up the house, and not so much time on the phones, but if they timed it right, they hopefully got a lot of the cleaning done before the time when a lot of rushees are getting home from school.

Starting next week, we'll start holding Barbeques at the house on Thursday nights. I'll be out of town next week attending UIFI so I won't have much to say about it. Also, unfortunetly I have my Kaplan course for the MCAT on thursday nights too, so I'll only be able to make the BBQ for little bit less than an hour each week.

Our first rush party is going to be out in Ogallala NE, at the home of the one of our previous rush chairs. It'll be the 29th of May and a chance to hit up Western Nebraska early, and much farther west than a lot of houses travel for events. We've been there for the past 2 years and it's always been a good time. I'll be missing this event though as well, to go to Sioux Falls for my cousin's HS graduation.

Looking forward to reading ya again this year again, it was great last year and you have some great insight!

I really enjoyed your thread last summer. Thanks for sharing again this year! I can't wait to see what happens this summer, especially for you since you'll be in Lincoln to observe everything that's going on.

Okay

This will be my only update for the next week because I will be leaving for home tommorow and then be headed to UIFI session 2!

We are planning to give a bid card to a rushee next week when the rush chairs meet with him.

He's in the honors program for comp. sci and management, ACT score of 33, is valedictorian of his HS, state wrestler qualifier, baseball player, and friends with one of my pledge brothers. He was in town and at the house for a weekend during the semester and actually played in Tri-Delts Batters Up softball tournament for us, so he knows a bunch of guys already.

As for J and D.

J will be having lunch with one of our rush chairs today at 1pm, and I'll be working with him tonight so I may just have to give an update when I'm home to let everyone know what he's thought so far. Several of the sorority girls that work with us have told me that they are pushing him away from certain houses and know that he's pretty excited about Beta. I'm really glad that these girls are helping him out, telling him which houses he shouldn't be in. Makes it so I don't have to say as much about the other guys and can just focus on selling Beta.

I worked with D last night, and he told me that he had gotten his first call before he got into work. His rush app was just released to the houses yesterday so that's why. D's stepbrother was a member of my chapter before I got there, so he's kind of a legacy. He's super, super, super excited about Beta, and may be developing into a rush crush, so I'm trying to calm him down a little bit about the whole thing. He is worried about his grades and ACT score comparing to some of the other guys we're rushing. He's afraid we're not going to call him, but I think I allayed his fears a little by telling him that he can always show up and do some of the work on his side.

Since I have the time, I'll give a quick little profile at the types of guys who have meetings set up so far. These are the descriptions the rush chairs posted on our message boards (Obviously all identifying information removed for GC)

Rushee A - FBLA president, all-state honorable mention for basketball, national honor society (NHS), 30 ACT, and 4.0 GPA, prom king

Rushee B - 24 ACT, 3.708, Track, cross country, NHS, and Chess Club.

Rushee C - 25 ACT, 4.0, Baseball player, all district first team football, also a thespian member, NHS...

Rushee D - 32 ACT, 4.0 GPA, football, golf, basketball, student council, Regent's Scholar

Rushee E - 30 ACT, 4.61 GPA, pre-med Peter Kiewet Scholar, Regents Scholar, varsity tennis, baseball, and basketball

Rushee F - 30 ACT, 3.93 GPA, Heisman State Finalist, citizenship award winner, State Honors Scholar, NHS, FBLA

Rushee G - top 3% of his class 30 ACT 4.3 GPA. varsity tennis and basketball and was an all-acadmeic athlete. NHS

Rushee H - 17/249 in his class 28 ACT 4.11 GPA. into community service...

Rushee I - 30 ACT and a 3.95 GPA. Super invovled kid with many leadership positions...has won several awards for English and writing.

Rushee J - Transfer student from a well known University in the south - in HS played sports..class president...33ACT/1490 SAT

Rushee K - 28/226 in his class...30 ACT/1370 SAT/3.936 GPA. varsity golf, was a distinguished scholar, and was in several other clubs. highly recommended from an alumnus.

Rushee L - 30 ACT and a 3.98 GPA. Athletic kid who shows leadership. Placed 8th at the state DECA convention. coaches Baseball for 10 year olds.

Rushee M - 6/433 in his class...33ACT/1430 SAT/4.684 GPA. He is an all-state soccer/many athletic as well as academic honors.

Rushee N - 28 ACT and a 4.3 GPA. class pres, played varsity sports, and was homecoming royalty. Reccomended by a graduating senior

Rushee O - Top 15% of his class 26 ACT and 3.8 GPA. cross country lacrosse, shows leadership, and did a good amount of community service.

Rushee P - 33ACT/1440 SAT/3.84 GPA. seems like a really involved kid with lots of community service. (Rush chair talked with rushee's mother for 15 minutes before the rushee got home...always promising when you get the parents involved, and I bet few other houses would do similar things)

Rushee Q - 31 ACT and 3.7 GPA. Was recognized as "Mr. <name of HS Here>" on student council, senior class board, and was in several other clubs


Rushee R - 34 act 4.06 gpa Co-captain of football team, peter kiewit distinguished scholar,student council rep, president of National honor society (little brother of one of my best friends - she's a Theta)


Rushee S - 28 act 4.409 gpa Deca President, student council, baseball, basketball, tennis

Rushee T - 30 act- 3.65 gpa- Frisbee golf Club, latin club, weekly trips to elementary school as a reading tutor, national honor society

Rushee U - 29 act-94.3 gpa, like a 3.8 -really involved, if you want to read about him call me or something cause i am not going to write it all. <-------this is what the rush chair actually wrote. Comes reccomended by one of my pledge brothers too


So these are the guys who have been called and had meetings set up from the first batch of applications. As you can see, some ridicuosly high quality guys. Just going through and reading all of the things these guys have done has me seriously impressed. Hopefully we sign some of these guys. I should make it a point though to say that we will still be meeting tons of kids throughout the summer. Guys will be coming through during New Student Enrollment, and there will be more apps trickling in each week. Plus these are only the guys who have meetings...some guys have been called but nothing set up. Also we can always count on some guys to just show up at our rush events.

Anyways, sorry for the length, and thanks for sticking through it if you made it this far.

jeeez if I was rushing with those guys, i'd be quite a bit self-concious also...

Wow.. sounds like no matter who you choose.. you're getting a phenomenal group of men.. Best of Luck!!! :)

wow...
impressive credentials and this is just the first round.
have fun.
i know you'll be successful.

Wow, that first group of rushees has great stats. Good luck with them!

I missed your thread last summer so I went back and read some of it. Really interesting! I'm looking forward to reading about this summer's rush!

Update

Okay, so a quick update

J had a great meeting with our rush chair last week. The rush chair told me that he felt that he could have given J a bid card then and been confidant that he made a good decision. So J just has to come to the house and meet some more guys and it looks like he'll be getting his card. The rush chair said that he really liked the way J carried himself and was real social and said things that made our rush chair think that Beta was the place for J.

I got to see the new batch of rush apps last week too, before I left, and they weren't nearly as impressive - I think that the rush chairs only pulled three apps to call out of the about 25 in this second batch, and none of those three were of the same quality of the 21 I've outlined. But I guess, considering there were only 21 guys out of the first 130-140 that we set up meetings with, then obviously there isn't always going to be guys in every group that we feel we have to meet with ASAP- once the summer gets farther along the number of meals out the rush chairs have will decrease some. The rush chairs are also realizing that they can call some of the other guys who are such studs and invite them to events rather than necessarily taking them out.

An arguement similar to last years rush about the importance of the app is simmering right now. One of the guys in question has us in a sticky situation. The kid is the little brother of an APhi that is really an excellent friend of Beta. She's dated two guys in the house and is friends with many of us. Her lil Bro has even come with her to some parties of ours and so most guys know and like him, but his app isn't so hot. I think he's been called and I would bet taht if he got a bid card he'd sign immediately, but it's a question of whether he should get a card. I think that he should simply b/c we need guys who show add something a little different. Plus I feel like we know this kid pretty well, many of us have met him and like him as a person, and if he got in he would fit into the chapter and would be everyone's friend.

There's also another kid who is actually good friends with J, and he has a 34 ACT but a 3.0 GPA, plans to walk on to the football team. Questioned simply because of the dichotomy of his ACT and GPA.

So that's it for now.

The Rush chairs have meetings set up everyday this week throughout the state from Omaha to Ogallala, and even one kids in the Kansas City area. Busy week no doubt, and of course the first rush BBQ. Some guys might get a bid card that night. Who knows by the time I next update we might have two pledges.

Okay,

So I'm back from UIFI. I was able to keep in contact with the rush chairs some, and found out we gave out 4 bid cards over the weekend.

J got a bid card from us on thursday and I talked to him that night, he seemed pretty pumped about it, so hopefully he'll sign.
D had to work that night so couldn't come to the BBQ but I think our rush chair told me that he talked to D's Stepbrother and seemed pretty encouraged by the conversation. I think that D will get a chance to make it to the BBQ this thursday night.

We also gave out bid cards to the one kid I already told you about early last week. My friend in Theta, her younger brother got his bid card too. Finally a kid who came from way out west to our state basketball open house in March also got a bid. All four of these guys are on that list of potentials I posted before. I think that we have an upper hand with all four too. Some of the guys have yet to see the house yet, but all have been met at least twice. And since with the exception of J, the other three don't seem like they'll have a chance to check out the house, they got their bids in spite of that fact.

Other than that, I didn't get a chance to talk to the rush chairs today, so I figure they are out and about places. I'll post more when I know more.

Once a man is given a bid card, how long can he wait to sign it? i.e. Any expiration date? And if so, is this a Beta fraternity rule, your chapter's or NU's IFC rule?

Bid cards "expire" after two weeks from the date they are issued, which is a University rule. I'm not sure if this means that if a bid card given to rushee A is give on June 1st if it must be into Greek Affairs by June 15th or just signed by that day. However a house can continue sending bids to "renew" the offer of membership after that two week period of the preceeding bid is up.

***note on bid cards: Many rushees will receive bid cards from more than one chapter if they go through rush for any sort of extended period of time. The earlier guys start rush the more likely they are to get multiple bids from what I've seen. Bid cards must be signed by the head rush chair, the rushee and one of the rushee's parents/guardians. I think that the reason for the parent's signing is b/c the freshmen can move into the houses without ever going to the dorms and so it's probably a good idea to have the parents aware of the situation.


As for rush news, another BBQ last night, and I think 2 bid cards were extended and one of those guys signed it right then. So we have pledge #1!!!Good kid from a Lincoln HS that we don't have any guys from. For those interested it's Rushee K. Of the 6 bid cards out, it appears that 3 are very likely to sign with us (including J), 1 is between only us and one other chapter and we're not real sure about what the last guy is thinking...this is my friend the Theta's little brother, so I know that he's technically down to us, SigEp and Farmhouse from what she told him she would allow him to sign.

Today, all three rush chairs came down to KS to visit a rushee and take him out. Tomorrow we have a rush event in Ogallala NE way out west. Knowing who is likely to be out there, I think we may get another guy signed out there, but I don't have any idea if any of the other probables will be getting a bid card.

The major topic of discussion of late in the chapter is whether it is appropriate for us to sign a kid who will be a Junior in the fall. The guy knows some members fo the house, who all vouch for the kid as someone who would be an asset for Beta, but most of us are against the idea, b/c he would only be in the house for two years, and it's out of the ordinary for our chapter. Plus there are major concerns about his bonding with his pledge brothers and him being okay with the active/pledge relationship with guys who are younger than he is. The rush chairs are against signing him, as am I, although my reason is b/c within two minutes of meeting him, he suggested that I shouldn't become a doctor b/c I said I was nervous about the MCAT. He then suggested I become an Actuarial scientist like him. Just seemed to insinuate that Act Sci was the best thing for anyone to be. That really rubbed me the wrong way.

Thanks for the info on bid cards.

Now for some questions about rushing and or bidding juniors. :D

Other than maybe not having beds in the house, y'all don't have quota do you? I guess I don't understand why having "an asset to Beta" - who happens to be a junior - would be bad.

Are these concerns about him specifically or is the concern with juniors (3rd years) in general having potential problems bonding etc.?

Yikes! :eek:

Well, as the women here are apt to say, keep an open mind. Maybe he was nervous. Or maybe he's a jerk. I'm sure y'all will do the right thing. :)

Yeah its a possibility that he was just nervous.. Who knows...

You could use the 3 strikes rule on him...

Strike one - He's a junior (if that isnt TOO huge of an issue)

Strike two - He said something jerkish (possible out of nervousness)

To find out if he is actually a jerk or just nervous, I'd try to spend some more time with him and see how that goes... I'm sure everyone does something stupid during rush out of nervousness.

I'm sure that I've had my idiot moments... I can't and couldn't remember them and I'm sure what I did didn't seem stupid at the time (head pouding in the morning made me think otherwise)...

But yeah..

Anyway, great thread beta... I've been enjoying reading your posts..

Good luck to ya,

-Matt

it's refreshing to see hard work pay off each summer.
betaruiz, you guys do it so well.

Okay,

Saturday's rush event was apparently pretty successful. Three guys showed up, including a rushee who is our #1 goal for the summer. Two of the guys had bids already, and the third got his that day. The two who had bids are definitely leaning our way so that's real good as everyone said great things about them.

The new bidded rushee was also well liked, and he's friends with our #1 guy, but we're unsure of what he's thinking about.

The events that took place after the event in Ogallala seemed to be far more low key than in past years but considering some of the circumstances it's understandable.

Also, D looks like he's going to get a bid card based on the fact that he's so excited about the house, and that he's impressed the rush chairs. I think J is likely to sing pretty quick, as at the last BBQ he brought his girlfriend with him...seemed like a positive sign to me.

As for the junior discussion: The concerns about bonding with his pledge class are for all juniors, and it should be noted that we don't just look for guys that are going to be assets to our house when going through rush. One of the questions usually asked is how is the rushee going to fit into the house. There have been plenty of occasions where a guy had the killer app but when we met with him, he wasn't our type of guy, either way too cocky, or just not social enough for our tastes - my personal feeling is that whether youre nervous or not, you need to be outgoing enough to carry on a conversation. So that's why we might not sign a guy who out on campus would be an asset for us. Also, the jerky comments had been a major strike against this guy, and there were many people who had other comments the guy had made that made everyone question. In the end though, it doesn't matter as he has told us that he's no longer rushing us.

Sorry about the lack of updates...

The GC community will be happy to hear that both J and D signed with my chapter last night. I wasn't there when it happened due to my Kaplan MCAT class, but J called me last night to tell me the news before I went to the bars.

J wasn't quite the sure signee I thought he was going to be in my last post. I talked to him on Monday and he told me that it was between us and another house - one that I really don't like as a whole (There are some guys in there that I really do like but as a whole...). So I took the oppurtunity to flat out tell J that I thought Beta was THE best place for him. I think that bold statement probably meant a lot to him.

D had just been needing to get to an event to get his bid card, and like I've said before he's been really excited about Beta from the beginning.


As of right now we have 14 bids out, and three guys signed.
Of the 14, one is likely to sign with us, though his bidding has been a matter of intense discussion, as he is a really nice kid, but his HS GPA and ACT scores are far below what is normally expected. His older sister is a good friend of the house - she has gone out with one guy who transferred, and is kinda going out with one of my pledge brothers currently. She is the reason that we even pulled his app out in the first place. I think the rush chairs talked to him and really layed out the situation and the feelings of guys in the house about him. But just in general there has been a lot of discussion on our message board about what needs to be a minimum standard.

4 guys are assumed to be leaning this way.

5 are between us and one or two other houses, including our #1 and #3 targets for the summer. Hopefully we can pull those guys out.

The remaining 4 are unknown in their intentions


This Saturday we are having a rush event at one of the nearby state parks. Always a fun one b/c it's really close to Lincoln so more guys make it, and more girls too. I've already got about 5 girls I work with planning on coming out and bringing friends. Hopefully we'll get some more pledges by the end of the weekend.

Sounds awesome! Keep us updated! And congratulations on the new members!

Okay, today sucked...f-ing weather, we were supposed to have a rush event at a lake but it rained all day, so we hung out at the chapter house and watched movies. Small turnout of rushees, but decent attendacne of brothers and girls.

One rushee got a bid card, but all I know is that he is a sophomore. Was a quiet kid, but seemed okay with that.

We had a kid who is a legacy, but he was a tool...incredibly annoying and said a lot of things that I didn't find appropriate for a rushee or a Beta. Called the ringtone on a rush chairs cell phone gay and is between us and a house that has a lot of guys from his HS in it. Considering the usual houses most rushees come down to with us, this house is not impressive at all. I don't think he will get a bid card at all.

D came around and continued to impress, so that's awesome, although it isn't as important now since he signed.It's awesoem to talk to him about Beta now, as he's so super excited. Every hour he wants some new Beta item, and I have to tell that he should wait for his initiation and all, but it's all cool. It's awesoem to see a guy that excited abotu it all.

sounds like you are right on track and all is well.
congrats on a good summer, so far.

Okay...I'm a little dissappointed, more so that I think I've ever been in two years of following rush (3 summers ago, when the juniors to be were being rushed, I was at space camp and we didn't have a message board, so I had no idea what was going on).

3 really good guys are going to other houses. Never seen such a mass defection away from us. Last summer, every guy who had a bid up to June 21st signed with us, so it's a little dissappointing. I'm most sad to see my friend in Theta's lil' bro drop us, because I don't think he's met enough of our guys, but I guess that's how it goes. Of the two he supposedly has left, I really hope it's one and not the other.

On the bright side, we signed a guy out of Omaha, so we're now up to 4 pledges, which is exactly how many we had last year on June 15th.

that's not bad at all. Good Job.

hon, do you know what might have happen with your defectors?
otherwise, you are on a roll and it's still only the middle of june.
keep the faith.

One of them said that another house just felt right, and so I can't argue with that. I was encouraged by the fact that the rush chair I tend most to agree with said he wasn't really upset that the guy joined that chapter.

As for the other guys, one joined a house strictly because one of his friends joined it. The friend is little brother of one of this house's top members. Seriously, people are predicting the downfall of this chapter once this older brother and a guy in his pledge class graduate.

The other guy, my friend in Theta's little brother - no idea. I do know that it has come down to our two rivals. One that rivals us in grades and the other for the "cool" involved guys. One of those chapters is being really pushy, rumor has it they are hoping to be done with rush by the middle of next week (absolutely ludicrous except for the AG houses) so I think it may be a case of them being pushy with this guy. Perhaps he's just not as good of fit as I imagined.

Finally, more good news, the kid with the less than stellar app received a bid and signed with us. so we are now up to 5! Again, really likeable kid, hopefully just needs some motivation.



ETA: this is my 1111th post on GC!!!

Okay, long time no post...

BBQ was last night, and it was a pretty big day.

Wednesday, this kid who is an absolute stud from Kansas told us he was 99% sure he was going to sign with us. He is in the JD Edwards honors program for computer science and business - very hard to get into b/c it comes with an automatic full scholarship, and free computers and all sorts of other perks, but this kid is apparently a really good athlete too (typically there are a lot of nerds in this program). And one of the girls who is a great friend of Beta did interviews for the kids trying to get into this program was falling head over heals for how hot this kid apparently is. Certainly doesn't hurt if the ladies like him.

This kid is important, b/c we're going for 2 other guys in this honors program, and the rush chairs think that him signing will likely cause another kid to sign, and the two of them will cause another kid to sign as well, which means one of his friends will sign. So we've got a chain reaction set up, we just need to close on them. But it's encouraging. If we get these 4, it would be a very talented group at least on paper.

Other than that, one kid dropped off his bid card today. Was valedictorian and class president. I talked to him for a long time today and he was super nice. His signing is also likely to cause another Lincoln kid to sign, though from a different HS. This other kid was also very cool, and I got a great vibe from him right off.

Finally, a kid from my home town of suburban KC called the rush chair during the BBQ and will be turning in his card next week at the BBQ. His signing, along with the first guy might cause a third Kansas kid to sign...which is good...we've had a South Dakota connection for a long time, so it's awesome to have a Kansas pipeline getting set up.

Other than that, one guy got a bid card last night after a lot of unnecessary discussion. This guy had been to the house a couple times - last tuesday for his New Student Enrollement, last weeks BBQ and yesterday, so the rush chairs knew him pretty well. He's from a really small town, but has a solid app. The discussion centered around his fitting in to the house. Basically everyoen that talked to him came back to the rush chairs and said "I don't know about that kid - he's kinda goofy." It was really funny to watch 4 guys talk to him and then have them all say the exact same thing that I said. We gave him a bid because he was nice guy, and we know that not everyone is going to be super outgoing. The rush chairs being on the fence could find no one who said that we shouldn't sign him. Essentially, no one thought that this was going to be a kid who was a risk, especially when the rush chairs considered who could be his roommates. (They thought about putting D in with him, b/c they think D will be excited just to have roommates - I've told you the kid is crazy about Beta). But anyways this kinda goofy kid is probably very likely to sign (his sister is a KD who seems to pushing him our way).

So there's the news:6 pledges (guys who have signed and turned their cards in). 15 bid cards currently out. 2 guys confirmed to sign, (just need to get that card in). 2 guys that will very likely sign. 4 guys that are leaning our way. 2 guys that are down to us and one other house. 1 guy that is down between us and 2 other houses, and 4 guys that we don't know what they are thinking.

wow! i remain impressed. how many would you like in all?

Pledge #9 signed yesterday. Great kid that we met back in March during our Rush open house during the Boys' State Basketball tournament. For those that are interested he is Rushee B from my profile of the early rushees we met with.


As for the number of Rushee's we'd like to take...We have a total of 21 spots for pledge's to live in the chapter house. A couple of the guys we are going after though are getting free room and board in the dorms, so obviously they can live out. We're probably shooting for 22-25 guys if we can. Right now I'm feeling pretty confidant in reaching that many.

hey congrats on all the new guys you got so far

congrats Betarulz.............wishin umcp had summer rush.

Good Job, man.

It seems like you are very involved in your chapter's rush. That is a great quality of a member especially during summer rush at Nebraska. Which house do you feel is Beta's main rival for kids? Do houses run into problems with other houses when competing for the same kids?

betarulz,
congrats....two summers in a row. you guys seem to have got it down beautifully.

Typically, we have our biggest competition from Sigma Phi Epsilon and Farmhouse, however we also lose a lot of guys to Alpha Tau Omega. Last year we lost a lot of guys to Delta Tau Delta, but not this year.

As for problems, I'll discuss those after rush is through, simply to avoid any sort of rumors being started from me since there are at least a couple of Nebraska people who sign on to GC.