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All you can do is go all out. UAH doesn't have a formal fraternity rush so we have to just go out and hunt guys down. Most UAH students don't even know there are fraternities on campus. So this may not help if your system is more formal.
But here are some things that are really helpful that people sometimes forget. Schedule a lot of rush events and make them mandatory. Start collecting names of rushees now and follow up on them all summer. Bring guys around during the summer and spend time hanging out with them. That way those guys will be bringing guys around from their classes. They will be as much a part of your rush as some brothers. I know its small things, but I was a part of a twenty eight man chapter and we rushed an eighteen man pledge class. It can be done, your chapter just has to want it bad enough.
And one other thing. The rush chairman has to be the kind of guy that is willing to make twenty or thirty phone calls a day every day to invite rushees out and to keep them coming out.
I wish you the best of luck because I know the feeling of being a small chapter trying to get as many pledges as you've got brothers.
-Mark
Theta Pi chapter 12/18/00
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