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Originally posted by AWSPE
No offense but thats not exactly what I was looking for. Try to keep things on topic here with advice on ways to get back our regular schedule. Because in our example, deferred is going to eliminate fraternities.
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Umm, chill.
Deferred rush will not eliminate fraternities unless you convince yourself it will.
Are you allowed to talk to freshmen in the fall? Are you allowed to invite them to hang out with you in a non rush party atmosphere? Look at it this way: you have a whole extra semester to get to know people, rather than giving a bid to some guy you have known for two days. You don't have to worry about giving a bid to someone who really shouldn't be in college and will flunk out after the first semester. It will probably cut down on giving bids to people who aren't truly interested and drop out or are crappy members. You said you had 20-25 signed bids - how many of those men finished pledging? How many of them stayed active throughout their college career? This cuts both ways of course, the rushees have a whole semester to get to know you. So you have to be sure that your brotherhood is showing throughout the fall semester.
Use the fall to give bids to sophomores and other upperclassment you've gotten to know who might be interested. Rushee does not equal freshman.
There shouldn't be a "courting" process - you should be interacting with men on a normal, friend to friend basis. You should use that semester to make friends with people and get to a point where giving them a bid is just a formality. Recruitment is supposed to be 24/7/365 - not 2 weeks where you put on your best face and forget about it otherwise. That model is outdated and even the sororities are starting to realize it.
It isn't right for you to be asked to "live up to standards" without being told what those standards are - but things where the school develops a set of standards that are uniformly for all GLOs can be disastrous. Show your Dean what your national GLO's standards are, and how you are living up to them