[ASTalumna06]

While you do need to analyze and possibly change the way you choose to extend bids, you also need to look at your recruitment practices.

First of all, recruitment isn't just about scholarships and PR events. It's about meeting people. EVERYONE in your chapter should be trying to meet new people 24/7/365.

And while not everyone in the chapter can meet every potential member, you have to learn to trust each other. As we always say, "Trust your sisters!" Now don't get me wrong, we've never given a bid to a potential member who only 2 sisters have met. But I think what you need to do is to learn how to introduce potential members to more brothers.

A simple way to do that is to invite potential members to do smaller activities with you, like going to lunch, playing football, seeing a campus concert.. whatever. Then you can introduce them to other brothers by inviting the potential member to the house, or inviting the brothers to go out with you. And try to introduce the potential members to different brothers every time you do something (and make sure you're introducing them to Group B people, too! Maybe not while they're playing Dungeons and Dragons..... but you get the idea.)

And I know that right now you might not have a say in what your recruitment events are (which seems crazy, but again, try to change that).. but who's to say that you Group A guys can't get together and do something yourselves? Plan something (without a vote), invite all of the brothers, but don't count on them all to be there. And do you have a Brotherhood chair? Philanthropy? PR chair? Or a program coordinator? If you do, and the positions are held by Group A guys, why not try to plan something else to mask as a recruitment event?

In the end though, if you still sense this great divide between the brothers, you probably need to address the problem by talking with them. Because other people will definitely notice that, and they won't want to become a part of your fraternity if it continues.