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My chapter had a similar problem -- my initiate class was 7 girls and 1 guy, and as a chapter we were about 75% girls. (I think it's a national problem...) Then, we busted our asses on this past rush, and our most recent initiate class had 6 girls and 7 guys -- a nice, even balance.
One thing we did was to really encourage (*ahem* heavily guilt-trip) all the guys in the frat to come to every single rush event they possibly could. It made the imbalance between guys and girls seem less obvious. We always had at least one guy and one girl at every info table, because otherwise we ran into the problem that people thought we were a sorority.
And this is kinda silly, but -- we had about 20 little flyers left over from information tables, and we decided to stick them under peoples' doors in the Honors dorm...we didn't have enough to put them under everyone's door so we only put them on the male floors!
Something else -- we're starting to plan some more fun events for rush this fall (in the past we've done basic stuff like info sessions and bowling). What we're thinking of is along the lines of sports stuff, like Ultimate Frisbee or even Human Foosball (Gamma Theta, I think, does it, and it sounds like tons of fun!). Guys might be more attracted to that kind of thing...hey, getting them to the events is half the battle, right?
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