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I dont know which one of you are from colonies, and which ones aren't. I myself am from a colony at a small school but a school that has a lot of Beta history (Denison). I keep wondering about how you guys think the colonies are spoiled. We don't get that much help, and when we do get help, it is more of a hinderous. My colony is rather self-suficient, and a lot of the colonies are, because the AO keeps finding the best guys to make them so. We barely get anymore attention then the chapters (and i speak for my area), so I really don't think that point, which keeps comming up is fair.

Originally Posted by BigRedBeta

I agree with the issues, we need to keep expanding, there's no question.

I tend to think that we baby our colonies and don't push them far enough enough fast enough. While I think it's smart to bring them along slower than most other organizations do, we go too slow...that might also help with the expense.

I've had discussion with fellow brothers about how the GF always brags about their founding father classes and who they are able to lure, but doesn't seem to have very solid recruiting tools made available to chapters (or colonies as it appears). While friendship based recruiting works, that's not something that really wows rushees to generate interest. Even chapters like my own which has won recruitment awards at convention could use ways to energize rush every now and then. We always complain about our lack of numbers of actives at rush events compared to other houses (remember we have summer rush so getting guys to events is a different challenge).