Calling all High Deltas
 

I found this link through one of guys that came down from nationals to train us. Just wanted to say hey to all the brothers and give a little detail to our colony. We are a colony at the University of South Carolina Aiken, we are extremely new about 4 months old and we were initiated about 2 weeks ago. It was definitley an awesome experience. We have about 25 active brothers and were losing about 10 after this semester which is making my job a little stressful to me. I was just wondering if anyone has some great ideas about some good recruitment events to hold or any techniques that could help out. And by the way I didn't understand about the magic carpet ride song until 2 weeks ago and i cant stop listening to that song.

In ZAX,
Jarod, colony 222 #29

"...may we have hope for the future of Lambda Chi Alpha and passion for its welfare..."

Jarod, Allow me to be the first to welcome you aboard GC!

I wish to wish you good luck on your new offership! By the way, what is Deltas Job?

I never held an officership of LXA, LX Z!

I never can remember anything beyond H Alpha and H Tau!:(

Please keep us updated on your new Colony status!!! There are many on this site who are concerned and very caring!

Do you have a web site yet? If so let us know, as Brother Jon Sagara has the Best Site for LXA Zetas Web Sites!

In ZAX,

Welcome Jarod, and to Tom delta is recruitment chair.

I think the best advise i can give you is to start early, at my school we have new student dday when all the prospective freshman come and check out the school to see what they are getting themselve into, which is next week for us by the way. anyway we start then, we get names and start contacting them for events over the summer, usually one a month. Like an O's game or kingsdominion trip or even white water rafting. Those guys are our core group of freshmen. Then move in day, try to walk through the dorm and help out, or just plane meet people, make contact anyway you can and get your name out. after that flyer to get your name out and to get awareness about events. We usually have a rush table out for a week or two, and try to just walk up and meet as many people as we can to try and introduce them to the fraternity. This is the most difficult part of recruitment. You have to be willing to work outside of your "comfert" zone and just go up to a stranger and say "hi my name is ______, have you ever thought about going greek". Just try to meet and talk to as many people as you can, i have always been told you will only get about 25% of the guys your talking to, so in other words if you want to rush 10 guys, you better be talking to 40. Even if you dont get those other 30 , the seed has been planted and they might talk to other people that might check you out because of it.


I hope this helps get you started if you have anymore questions or you want some more ideas as far as events or flyers just email, wdemar1@gl.umbc.edu. I was delta at my chapter and rush is definiately one part of lambda chi i love to brain storm about.

Here at UNC - Charlotte
 

Hey man And Welcome,

Man it is really tough losing guys earlier in your brotherhood, try and make your presence clear, and be sure to be involved in campus events so prospects can be thinking about you. Make them wonder what its like to be a Chop and when Rush comes around they'll be more apt to check you out. We go to the Arena Football Games here in Charlotte, and the Hockey Games in Charlotte, We go to Hooters, Comedy Clubs, Just anything that will get the prospects to come out of their shell and gain an interest in pledging. Make them feel wanted and then think about getting shirts to promote your rush, get some sororities to wear them around for you and get your brothers to wear them as well as give your "almost" definite associates a shirt if you can afford it.

Welcome...
 

You guys have a lot to be proud of there. I am a brother and one of the guys on the recruitment team who recruited one of the ELC's that helped in ya'lls colonization, Shane Foley. Shane was very proud of you guys. I believe it was his first colonization, but he invested a lot emotionally in you guys and sent our chapter alumni an email about how proud he was of you guys and how ya'll are set to rock that campus.

If you'd like to email me at ealifesaver@hotmail.com, I can share some of the tips we used to take our chapter from 14 to nearly 70 men today. We only laid the groundwork, those who followed after us took the ball and ran with it, but they still use the same techinques. I'd be more than happy to help.

In ZAX,
Andy