Rush at UCSC

[maggieaxid]

Corina,
Totally move forward with NBO rush. I know that AZD nationals may be a little hectic right now with the start of the school year, the colonization of 3 new chapters, and all the new members from already exsisting chapters coming in. So just be patient. I am sure they have not forgotten about you at all.
If you need help with rush stuff, we are all here for you. Also, PM me if you would like, I was a Rush chair for my AZD chapter in 1999.
-Maggie

[theta sig agd]

Corina,

I vaguely remember you stating the other local on your campus was also wanting to affiliate with a nationals. Do you know how they are doing?

Definitely do some kind of rush! Keep the members comin in! It can only help to get more women.

As usual keep us posted on your happenings. Maybe you could post your rush???

Good luck!

[TriSigmaTX]

Corina,
If you need help with RECRUITMENT this year, just let any of us know, we're all here willing to help

I sure hope you have an answer soon so you all can proceed.
Love ya!!!

[mmcat]

just roll ahead and recruit like crazy. when you get the call, you are carrying more neat new members. otherwise, nbo is still carrying neat new members.
no losses my friend.
no fear...

[mmcat]

bumpity bump bump...
keep us up to date on what's happening.
cheers

[wishinhopin]

Hi everyone,

It's been a crazy couple of days for us. We had to get all of our stuff prepared for the OPERS festival- essentially a big gathering out on one of the atheltic fields, and every student org has a table and we pass out info, let people know what we're all about, etc. All the greeks were in a sort of square in one row, so it was nice for all the students coming through to be able to see the whole of greek life at UCSC. We panicked because we thought we had it planned out, but then at the very last minute (the festival was yesterday afternoon, we started planning the night before at like 11pm) we had nothing done. But I think the time pressure really worked well for us, and our booth was really cute. A bunch of the new organizations and old came up and told us that they wanted to do socials or rush events with us, and that was pretty cool. We had sheets where interested women could put down their names and telephone numbers, and we got 40 names! I'm sure not all of them definitely wanted to rush (we had free candy at our table and I think that drew in a big amount of people) but that's still a decent number. Now we're facing a couple new problems. One, how to plan an entire rush in the next few days- we had to make a tentative plan so we would have something to distribute flyers about at the festival, so we planned it for next week, the same week that most of the other orgs are doing rush. We desperately desperately need a good rush slogan and t shirt idea! Both Gamma Phi and Alpha Psi had awesome, super cute shirts, and we need something comparable to them, plus we actually have the money for them, so we're searching. Our basic rush theme is Starry Nights, and we need a really really really wonderful shirt and slogan to go with it. Our brains are fried and we can't think of anything! The only other concern is waiting and waiting to hear from AZD...the suspense is killing us! But hopefully we'll hear from them soon, and besides, I'd rather not hear from them then have them call and say they're not interested. More later, please, if anyone has any suggestions, let me know! I've already checked out tons of websites (greek101, greekgear, grafcow, etc) so I'm a little stressed.
Corina

[xo_kathy]

I'm swiping this from something I read here I think, but it was a Panhel theme, not a specific sorority's, so I feel it's ok!

On the front left they had their house and the rush date or school or something, and the back had two girls laying on the ground looking up at a starry sky with all the houses letters in them. The slogan was something like why wish it when you can live the dream or something like that. So maybe you can do something like, "wish on a star, and your dreams can come true - NBO" and make a starry sky and have 'constellations' in the form of your letters? Or something to that effect?

And maybe at a rush event do something with rushees astrological signs, or decorate like that or something? Just a thought...

Good luck, Corina! We are all rooting for you and NBO!

[FuzzieAlum]

Hootie had a great idea. I've also seen similar shirts with a girl gazing up at the sky saying, "If I had one wish ... [sorority name]."

[shadokat]

corina--

check out joetshirt.com. They have more of those little slogany ideas than ANYONE, and you can get designs to go along with them. Even if you don't use them for the shirts, you can still use their artwork and such.

Good luck! You're doing great

Heather

[maggieaxid]

i saw an alpha phi wearing this the other day....
"starlight, starbright, I got the only wish, I wished last night"...
it was a navy blue t-shirt with a giant silver star on the back and the words were written in brite green! Very cute!

Ps. im pming you with an idea!

[AXWhoah]

This year Chi-O had these really cute shirts. They were red fitted shirts with pink, white, and black detailing and they staid..."Make a Wish. Make it Chi-O"...It was really cute, and that goes along with the star theme, you could have like a star in back of the words or something like that....

[aephi alum]

Some random ideas...

Navy or black t-shirt with stars... constellations forming the N and the B, and then a crescent moon or a full moon for the O... or a comet with NBO written in the tail. I can't come up with a cute slogan tho' ...

If you're going to do name tags, make them star-shaped. You could do black with names written in gold or silver metallic pen, or gold or silver with names in black. Building on xo_kathy's idea, how about putting people's zodiac signs on the name tags?

Keep your room relatively dark and crisscross the ceiling with a bunch of Christmas lights to simulate starlight. (I know you didn't ask for decorating ideas, but I thought this might help )

Good luck with rush!

[maggieaxid]

for skit round, we used to do our little performance in black light. you don't have to buy them, just ask around.
all the sisters who weren't in the skit were wearing all black, except for white writting across their chests that said "ALPHA XI DELTA" and white gloves...it looked really cool.
If you aren't planning on doing a skit, you could just decorate the entrance in blacklight, have all your sisters where just plain all black except for their name tags and play really cool music (like a techno futuristic song) as the PNM"'s come in. After everyone is seated or something and you guys introduce yourself and a little about NBO, then you can turn the lights back on!

[GPhiBLtColonel]

...there have been a lot of great starry starry night ideas but one I think you should steer clear of is using a Crescent moon as that is Gamma Phi Beta's symbol -- not that we have any rights to it or anything, you just want to be original! Do a full moon -- one smiling down on the two girls looking up into the starry night...the astrological signs are a fun idea but could put off girls who are more religious....just my two cents worth!...maybe you could even weave in a little AXiD theme and have the two girls looking up into the starry night and holding teddy bears -- one blue and the other gold
By the way, I think you can buy individual black light bulbs to use with maggieaxd's idea which sound adorable!!!

Good Luck! With your track record Corina, I know that WHATEVER you end up doing will be Fabulous!!!!

[catty1978]

Way to go, ladies of NBO! Like everyone else, I've just been mesmerized by this thread! Corina, you're amazing! Keep up the good work, doll, it seems at this point, AZD would be lucky to have you girls, but the sisterhood of NBO seems like something quite special in itself!

Anyway, like a previous poster, a sorority at my school (AZD, actually ) had bid day shirts that were adorable--black baby tees, that said "Alpha Xi Delta" on the front, and on the back it said in white lettering:

"Starlight, starbright, I got the wish, I wished last night"

With all these glittery silver stars around it. I just think that sounds adorable!!!!! Would be a great pair with the rush shirts someone else mentioned--"Make a wish. Make it to NBO."

Just a suggestion! Good luck with your recruitment process. I look forward to reading more about your organization as it grows and develops--you have something great on your hands, congrats!