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Originally posted by astroAPhi
Just out of curiousity, how many members do you have? And how many do the other sororities have? Is Greek Life as a whole "losing its novelty", or is it just Phi Gamma Pi? That might help us be able to answer your question.
What did we do? We learned to COB. Freshmen especially are a wonderful resource for this. They can just drag their roommate out to dinner with us or half their floor (as the one girl we got through formal recruitment did). Spring semester, I got my roommate, my former roommate, and a friend from my pre-college years to join. At the end of the year, we were one under total, and we have 3 girls that we wanted to give bids to, but they wanted to wait until next semester. We had girls where it took an entire semester to rush them, but we didn't give up.
I won't kid you, you have to be gung-ho, and you have to be determined. We invited PNMs to every single event that wasn't sisters only. I can proudly say that we are definitely better rushers than we were before, and a stronger sisterhood because we made sure we found quality girls. Only 2 seniors graduated, so we are looking forward to possibly going above total for the first time ever. We'll need to too, with 20 people graduating in the next year and a half.
It took a long time. We had some ups and downs. We initiated 20 women the year I was initiated, and only 8 the next year. We had lots of girls transfer schools. The most important thing though is that you have to retain your image as a strong sisterhood. No one will want to join if they don't see that.
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Thank you for your insipring story and to answer your question, Greek Life at Kent seems to be at an all-time high. At least, it is according to my Rho Chi from formal. She said there hadn't been that many girls going through formal rush in quite some time.
We have 6 national sororities whose numbers are an average of about 75 to 80 girls per chapter. As for Phi Gam, we only have 5 active sisters and one sister has to deactivate because she is transferring schools so I guess that brings us down to 4. I've already told her to try to start a colony at her new school, if Penn Culinary can permit it.
I'm so afraid that we're gonna die! Our president isn't the "partier type," but most of my ideas are related to philanthropy and just getting our name out there! I guess it's all a matter of talking to the right sisters as well as approaching our president the right way. Thank you for your advice.
Greek to Greek,
That1LoudChick