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one800thekiller,
President here of a small local fraternity. The university I am in has roughly 1800students. Obviously more than yours, but since I am located in Quebec, Canada. They generally are not accustomed to Fraternities, and thus we have extremely low interest in the fraternity from campus. So It seems as small as yours.
The number one thing I would say, Is for one month you have got to focus (all three of you) on the fraternity. This is mainly done in September, but you can focus on October now i suppose.
I encouraged my guys (5of us right now) to go to as many different club meetings as possible. We got REALLY NICE shirts from one of our alumni, that has a roll number on the back and name and what not on the front. We wear these to the meetings. When we go party, we wear them.
We knew we had to grow this semester or we would die, so we also threw a legendary party. Molson Sponsored us, we had a live band AND a live DJ. We had a beerpong table out, as well as a foosball table. We had roughly 180 people show up. We invested in female shirts that had our fraternity name on them, and tossed them into the crowd and gave guys free Molson stuff (That molson gave us).
We didn't take a break from the party, and went right into rush. We got to know everyone, didn't sleep at all. you are catering to the rushies, but dont let them know that.
We have our alumni coming down this weekend for homecoming, and we are getting them to meet them, drink with them. Then we make them pledges. This semester was so good, we already have minimum 4 guys, more like 10 though. The highest we have ever seen in one semester is 4 (my pledge group), so this is awesome.
If you need more help then this, let me know, send me a message. I have tons of things you can do.
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Castro
President of DS
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