Penn State Recruitment
 

I recently replaced an disliked (and ineffective) recruitment chair last semester, so Fall 2008 is my first shot at Rush.

Any suggestions for...
Rush Shirts ideas
Summer Rush retention
and general competitive Rush tactics (we have over 50 fraternties to pick from at PSU)

Thanks

is that even possible: 50+ frats to choose from?
i call BS.

52 Fraternities and 30 Sororities at Penn State. (See chapter listing below)

http://www.sa.psu.edu/greeks/chapters.asp

I think I know my own Greek System...

But all 52 aren't competing against each other really.

Ok I stand corrected. But stili, 52 frats is ridic. I just feel like if you replaced someone who was "ineffective and disliked" then you must have had some ideas on how to be liked and effective.

Otherwise, damn what did you get yourself into? Esp against 52 other orgs.

Second largest greek system in the country, baby. :) When I was there, there were 56 fraternities.

Looking at that list of 52 made my head hurt.

Who has the largest Greek system?

Good luck to the OP. I have no advice to offer. I do recommend reading some other threads that may shed light.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (69 fraternities & 36 sororities, according to Wikipedia)

That sounds claustrophobic. :eek:

Oh God that many? my school only has 15 and alot of them are small.

Since you're AGR you're only competing for men who are enrolled in degree programs for ag, natural resources, and so on? I mean yes there are 52 fraternities, but isn't your pool of potential men limited by a membership requirement?

Other than hitting up 4-H and FFA, can you hit up your professors and departments for names of men, or volunteer to be mentors and orientation leaders within the college of ag and what not?

Whatever you do, please don't do a John Deere shirt and have any sayings about "pullin' hoes since 1904" or anything tacky like that. Something like "growing your food and good brotherhood" is cheesy but at least it isn't offensive.

Excellent point.

AGR isn't agriculture specific, though that's what they focus on.

Lot of business majors in the one at Arkansas.

That's what I thought. And even if it was ag specific, there are oodles of ag majors at Penn State.

Depending on the composition of your chapter, I would play up the ag angle but don't make it seem like everything you do is related to it. Some of these guys are coming from towns/situations where that's been their whole life since birth and they want a change - don't lose them before you even get started. I know that's a hard line to walk though.

But are they Ag business majors as opposed to regular business majors? It isn't that they have to actually be studying crop science or animal husbandry to be eligible for membership, but my understanding was that it is any major related to such (ag education, ag. economics, forestry, etc.). My school has a Department of Education for teachers, but the students who are studying to be FFA teachers and what not fall under Agricultural Education and therefore it is under a different heading. I'm just assuming there is a distinction at your school as well?

Hew PennState-Gamma, is that still the case or is it like Farmhouse now where that isn't a membership requirement?