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I'm in a completely different situation, as my chapter entered its 114th year this past September. However, you and all the guys that are expanding our good and great fraternity are doing an awesome job and you have more of my respect than you will ever know. I don't know if I could be doing what your doing.
ZZ and Jerzee have hit on some good points already.
I think the important thing is to make sure that the guys you have already are operating at the highest level possible. As Willis Robb said: "The future will copy fair our past" so sucessful chapters usually remain successful chapters. You become a successful chapter you'll lure men who are going to keep it that way. So kick ass at everything you can and send a message to ECU that Betas are for real.
I'm up in the air about dry rush and it's merits. At Nebraska, our Greek Affairs office is very strict about enforcement of dry rush. Houses must submit schedules of when their rush events will be, and where, with the possibility of random visits from University staff, (which with summer rush would seem to make you think that this was an empty threat but I've heard stories from other houses). Being so strict dry rush doesn't hurt us. But I do understand that at other universities dry rush is a death knell for your social reputation b/c you won't get the guys who will let loose on the weekend. If wet rush is engrained into the culture at ECU then you have to go with that to level the playing field.
Other things...
Recruitment through Scholarship is a really good thing for our chapter. Granted we've won the Virginia Tech award for the highest GPA in all of Beta for the past 3 years so we draw the brightest but there have been a couple of really smart guys that we've gotten into our house b/c of that extra incentive, who otherwise wouldn't have considered us long enough to see what we were like.
I don't know how you guys rush, but one of the biggest things taht we always get from guys in talking about why they signed is the fact that at rush parties they end up talking to all the brothers and not just the rush chairs. I know at most of the houses I looked at the same type of thing happened...I'd talk to the rush chairs for awhile, there'd be 50 other guys from the chapter and I might talk to just two of them. Meanwhile I go to a Beta event and actaully talked to nearly every single Beta member. That made such an impact on my decision.
Hope this helps...respond back to this and let us knwo if this is the type of feedback you were looking for.
__Kai__
Geoff Mickells
Alpha Tau 2063
University of Nebraska
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