[alphaalpha]

Of course i am not familar with your campus and my suggestions goes with the satement, do what works best for your campus.

Anyway, why not do sometime of welcome for women, like say a games night. I know it is cheesy, but my church did it and its a great way to meet people and talk to them.

Do some time of welcome ceremony at the start of the school year for freshmen women. I have heard of some really beautiful campus welcome stories that involved candlights.

Or maybe a event at the start of the years such as a series of learn college study skill sesions to help acclimate the new women to college.

don't push rush, but just act like hey we are doing this out of the goodness of our hearts to be nice and we are not doing this to recruit women. It s a matter of attitude that i think people respond to. It like saying (in action) we don't need anyone we are fine as we are, we are just doing nice things cause that is what we do. I hope that i am explaining this right.

This way, when rush comes around (if it is not before school starts) then the new women aready associate the sororities with being nice, having fun, ect. I really don't mean to be rude, but i think that when people, organizations try to hard as in too much poblicity it comes off as we are desperate and we are in dire need of people. doing some activities such as i suggested comes off as, hey we are great and like to have fun, we don't need anyone else, but if you want to join us that is great. Its a different perception based on my own experiences and since i do not know your school i can only make assumptions about what the climate of your school is.

good luck.

PS. if you search around the site there are has a lot of great advise about increase chapter size. look around and i bet you will find some great advise.