need some help

[lambdachirho]

Hey all....so my sorority needs some help with Recruitmant, the way my school does it, is that we hold something called Meet the Greeks where each Greek Organization sets up a table displaying there scrapbooks, paddles, awards etc. Then we hold Interest meetings and the PNM get to know us a little more, this usually works great.....but some Greek Organizations got in trouble (including mine) and we aren't allowed to set up a table. We are allowed to be there, wear letters, hand pamhlets out...but no table....

So does anyone have any ideas how we can Recruit Interest?

Thanks for all the help!

[SoCalGirl]

Are you allowed to give things away, besides the pamhlet?

People always want free stuff! That'll attract attention.
I remember when I went through structured informal spring rush years and years ago a chapter gave out cut flowers. You could attach your pamhlet to it. You could also hand out candy.

If you can't give things away you'll need to make sure you're girls have their rush skills together. If allowed, dress in matching outfits. Make sure that their rush conversation skills are already polished. They'll also need to be really outgoing and approachable. They can't sit back and wait for girls to come to them. They will have to approach girls and start talking to them about what makes your chapter special.

Also, can you have scrap book or photo albums even without a table? Can the members just hold the albums?

[lambdachirho]

hey thanks for theses ideas they are awsome....we can basically do anything we want and give out anything....so we will def give out free gifts...not sure what yet....

weare allowed to have the photo albums with us i never thought to actually hold them thats a good idea also....


thank you sooo much

[honeychile]

I think what y'all need to do is to have a time together where you either vocalize or write every single idea y'all can think of. If you can't have a table, can you have a chair? Can you have an easel with a composite? Do you have a light enough composite that, if properly adjusted, could be worn by a sister or two? If you're going to pass something out, how about an emory board - who can't use one of those? As I said, be creative!

The most important thing is to have at least two people there the entire time that the other sororities will be displaying! You simply cannot afford to do otherwise! It would be totally cool if you could have THREE sisters, one wearing Lambda, one Chi, one Rho, standing in order! There are dozens of ways of getting around this, but you really need to think it out, and have a backup plan (in case you're told, "no, you can't do that!").

Good luck!

[LightBulb]

How many people and sororities are at your school? How big are the sororities? When is recruitment?


Those are some great ideas so far.

Also, make sure your website looks nice and is current. Put the address for that in your pamphlet, so shyer girls can find out more about LXR on their own.

[adpiucf]

Get a few really good action shots of events and sisters together, blow them up to poster size, and set it up as your backdrop so someone 10 feet away could see it. At the top, list your organization name and your website.

(If you don't have good and updated website, immediately recruit a student or member to do this. Look at other chapter sites at your school and within your organization for ideas.)

Give away pens with your web site URL. Everyone can use pens, they lend them, lose them, give them away, people see others writing with them. Get your sisters to give them out in class, too. Great conversation starter. You can't stereotype a pen!

Do you have A/V capabilities and a recruitment video or PowerPoint presentation? Show this on a continous loop? Or set up an easel with a few different photos, caption and testimonial.

Sisters should also staff the area wearing matching clothing or dressed in letters. To be different, you could have the sisters staffing the booth wearing their pins. If everyone else is in letters, this will stand out to the non-Greeks. Non-Greeks don't know letters-- they'll remember the girls in blue who were wearing pins... and then everyone else who were in t-shirts.

Instead of an intricate brochure, create a double-sided One-Sheet-- 4-color 8.5 x 11 sheet with photos and captions, a brief intro paragraph on "Who We Are", sample events you have in a year, contact information and some brief quotes from members. VERY IMPORTANT: You must list a CALL TO ACTION. IE: To learn about membership opportunities with XYZ, please contact....

Put your website, a phone number, address and contact on your materials.

Less to open and fold means your message is clear and out there-- no one has to dig through pages or folds to find out what it is you want them to do. Students are walking by-- grab them with a message and call to action in your marketing piece.

During the week of this open house, set attire for members on campus-- so everyone is uniform and looks good. It will make your letters stand out more-- have sisters arrange to meet in groups for lunch and library study time-- it will appear XYZ's are everywhere. Also, encourage their interests this week to go to a few campus club meetings in letters to join a new club for themselves and to promote XYZ.

[lambdachirho]

thanks for all the great ideas so far....im gona bring them up at our meeting on thurs.....hope everything works out.


My school is pretty small.....13,000 students
Number of sororities and fraternities: 30
Number of just sororities: 16
Number of members: 15-25 (we have 17)

[AlphaFrog]

Originally posted by lambdachirho

My school is pretty small.....13,000 students
Number of sororities and fraternities: 30
Number of just sororities: 16
Number of members: 15-25 (we have 17)

Does anyone else think that either this school is hugely local-only or Panhellenic went a little expansion nuts here?

Also, what kind of punishment is no table?? I've never heard of that. It seems like it would be an all-or-nothing thing. Either you get a table and get to participate in formal or you don't.

LXP...does your school have NPC's??

ETA: Not an insult, just a casual observation. It could be a school that just like small-tight knit orgs.

[PsychTau2]

Size is relative, but I don't consider 13,000 students as "pretty small"...unless 3/4 of that number are graduate students.

Those numbers make me go ...it feels weird to have that many groups at 12-25 members only. There's nothing wrong with those smaller chapters (I come from one!), but honestly, if a majority of those chapters are NPC's I'd expect them to be a lot larger at a campus with 13,000 students. (just by looking at numbers from other similar sized campuses). They could be a majority of locals though...

What is the number of students that are eligible to join the greek system there (i.e. full time, undergraduate, etc.)? How many of those groups are NPC and not NPC? Deferred recruitment or not? What is the number of PNMs going through recruitment each time? If you have an organized informal recruitment (or a recruitment "opposite" the recruitment where freshmen are eligible (a fall recruitment and a spring recruitment), how many go through each recruitment? Any idea on how many women accept COB bids?

(sorry...I went into diagnostic mode there!)

PsychTau

[PenguinTrax]

There are at 2 NPC groups at Kean - DPhiE and Theta Phi Alpha.

There are a number of locals there, plus a smattering of national Latino/a, African American and Multi-cultural groups. There is no comprehensive chapter listing on the Kean Greek site although I was able to back track a link via google to individual chapter pages:

http://www.kean.edu/~greeks/senate/

I also found:

http://lambdachirho.tripod.com/

[33girl]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
Also, what kind of punishment is no table?? I've never heard of that. It seems like it would be an all-or-nothing thing. Either you get a table and get to participate in formal or you don't.

Actually, as a punishment, it makes a lot of sense.

They don't get "first look" at the girls interested in Greek life and vice versa. Therefore the girls might not come to their party.

The girls that DO come to the party are likely to ask "so why didn't you have a table? What's up with that?" and they'll have to think of some way to answer it.

Just have people walking around....or better yet, have a group of sisters at the entrance point where most people come in, whether it's inside or outside (like if it's in a quad, position yourselves where the most people are walking in from).

And I see nothing wrong with having many small groups, NPC or not. As long as the system as a whole is unified, and there's no housing issues, who cares whether you have 15 groups of 20 or 3 groups of 100???? It's all about what that campus wants and what works there, not what NPC thinks is the best.

ETA link to listing of all the groups at Kean:
http://www.kean.edu/~greeks/senate.html