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1. Ask a different sorority chapter to help you with each night of rush. In return, your chapter will host them for a mixer or barbeque later in the semester. Or y'all might offer to help them with their philanthropy or guarantee X number of members will attend etc. Or come over and do a day's work at their house. The point is that if you ask a sorority (not just the individuals, but the chapter as a whole) to help, and they accept, then you need to repay the favor. If the chapters are hesitant or unable to do so "as a chapter", then ask girlfriends and female friends to help/attend.
2. Invite alumni to attend so that they may let the rushees know what being an XYZ has meant to them etc. As a "fairly new fraternity on campus", you may not have a lot of alumni in the area that could attend every night. As such, you may want to designate a specific night as *Alumni Night* and advertise it as such. "Tuesday is Alumni night. Come watch the ball game, enjoy some hotwings, and meet some of our alumni and hear what being an XYZ means to them." (Yeah I know I'm not that good at the tag lines but I hope you get the point.) And remember the alumni do not necessarily need to have attended your college. Having alumni from other chapters come to support you - Especially since you are new to the campus - can be quite powerful.
Note: These suggestions are not specific events, but recommendations to help with rush in general. And while both are ok within NIC guidelines, be sure to check with your campus IFC to see if there are any campus regulations regarding women and/or alumni attending rush events. As a new chapter, y'all can not afford to receive a rush infraction.
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