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Originally Posted by miller11386
Yes we also have a freshman move in day that we participate in every year. Although, other than talking to some of the kids that we move in, we are not allowed to apporach them about joining during this period. Approx 5,000 move in and usually we are comissioned to help the ladies move their stuff rather than the young men we are looking to have join. 
I have been pushing for more of a campus involvement, and wearing shirts around campus, but the only thing we have going for us is that we have "Lone Star" on the shirts rather than our greek letters (because we are local)
All of our fraternites have seen less and less members recruited every year. I was just curious if this was a sign of the times, or if we are an exception.
I was thinking that we need to start soliciting new members in the dorms. Although our campus can be quite restrictive on what we can pass around in a dorm setting. I think this is our next tactic we are going to try, but I don't know how sucessful we will be there.
:Crosses fingers:
Thanks for all the tips so far! |
What does your being a local have to do with you not being able to wear letters? Is it in your bylaws or something? If not, I'd consider wearing shirts with the actual letters on them.
As far as the move-in day, can you request a specific assignment (ie. an all-male dorm)? If you haven't tried, give it a shot.
On my campus, the RAs are very strict with soliciting in the dorms. You might want to try talking to housing to see what restrictions are in place as far as advertising in the dorms is concerned.
Do you participate in formal or informal recruitment?
I got a chance to check out your website. I remember when I was an interest, I gauged several of the fraternities on how up to date their websites were (if they couldn't take the time to update a website, they were probably slacking overall). Your website doesn't really have much information on it, which is strange considering how long you all have been around. You should really look into getting someone to update/maintain it.