I wanted to start my own thread about Indiana Gamma's COB efforts and ask for any advice that anyone has for our chapter! I'm really close with the COB chair and she and I are getting excited for this process.
First off our chapter is pretty small, we're smaller than any house on campus and the only ones that do COB. We're in a rebuilding period so we're working really hard on trying to boost numbers while keeping quality up there too. Yesterday was our school's Block Party and while we had lines of girls signing up for information they were all freshmen. This is good for formal rush but not for fall informal rush because we can't bid Freshmen through fall COB.
We're going to be putting up posters announcing events for COB in each residence hall, putting up flyers in the union and sending out letters to unaffiliated sophomores. I know this is a lot of PR but at the same time I know last year I didn't even remember seeing posters or flyers advertising COB. I know for activities we're going to meet at the campus Starbucks and have people just hanging out and studying and stuff, we're also doing mini-golf, going out for ice cream, having a picnic and a formal dinner.
I'm kind of nervous about the whole thing because there are a few girls in my pledge class who don't really socialize outside the house. The sophomores are the ones who have to bring friends over and I know most of mine are affiliated.
Well I have to get back to classes and stuff like that but I just wanted to share my COB excitement/woes!
PPL,
Jess
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