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Brother,

We did a Fall Rush which was restricted to upperclassmen only. We now have 14 AMs and will be pursuing 25 more potential AMs in the next few weeks.

Our "big" Rush period begins next semester when we will be able to recruit First Year students. Our current upperclass group of AMs will be initiated at the end of this semester and will be the "core" group, along with IHQ staff and Alums, to conduct the traditional second semester Freshmen recruitment for us.

We expect our numbers to be much higher at the end of the normal second semester rush period. So, our plan is to phase in our Colony's recruitment effort over two rush periods.

We could have waited until second semester, but we knew that there were some excellent upperclassmen who did not join a fraternity last year. Basicly, we picked up men (with demonstrated leadership and academic skills) who will "jump start" our Colony recruitment.

By the way, we are not convinced that a large number of members is necessarily a good thing. Of course, we want enough men to provide a great fraternal experience for our members.

If that goal is reached by having 40 or 60 men in our Zeta that will be fine with us. Eventually, we would like to have an average of 50 to 60 men in our Chapter each year. Zeta-Upsilon initiated over 1200 men in roughly a 55 year period. We averaged about 22 men a year in the past. We will be happy with 15 or so new members a year from now on.

We hope to have 40 to 60 members in our Zeta by the end of the second semester. Wish us luck....

Thanks for the observation.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Z-U Zeta