[Kevin]

I'm not really sure what made Sigma Nu pick our campus. Maybe it was the fact that we're the quickest growing school in the state, the 3rd largest and only 5 fraternities at the time. There's still a lot of potential now and I hope we expand soon. It seems when we added another group that total numbers going through rush increased anyhow..

I do know what they did when they came here though. They had one of the expansion people actually live here 2 semesters. The first semester he recruited, he ran ads in the school newspaper, talked to unaffilliated leaders of the campus and found faculty to help sponsor us. We originally had 12 men -- he took them through our LEAD program, gave us some basics on expansion and he was out of there (came back to visit regularly)

3 years later we figured things out for ourselves, recruited enough men, sent in a petition and were granted our charter. I'm very critical of the way things were run and I realize it was in a transition period. I know that our IHQ now has several people that do recruitment/expansion, in 1999 we only had one. He was spread too thin and in my opinion did not prepare us very well. We had a couple of semesters of pure disaster during Rush, did better in open rush. It took us 2 years really to become competetive with other fraternities.

It was a good experience but after seeing the PKA colony come in here and charter in 2 or 3 semesters.. well hell.. they know what's going on when it comes to colonizing. If you do any research on how fraternities do it check out PKA, it might be helpful.

Since you're NPC I know it works differently. I wish you luck and congratulations on being named to a national committee. Very much an honor.