Mandatory Events

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One thing our chapter prides itself on is being different from the rest. We are the first, and only Non-pledging fraternity on campus, and we have a lot of differences between us and the already existing fraternities. One thing that we like to boast, is that we do not require you to participate in everything because we feel that you can have a life outside of our brotherhood. With this, we haven't made any events (that aren't deemed so by IFC) mandatory for members to show.

Today we had a new fraternity have a colonization ceremony on campus, I anounced it to everyone of the chapter, and requested that some please show up to show support. Well, it happened just as I figured it was, I was the only one there from my chapter, and the rest of the fraternities/sororities (that actually participate in stuff other than partying) had at least 5 members (mostly exec board). Our "competition" as they call us, had almost everyone from their chapter there, and they stuck out like an apple in a basket of oranges, and there I was, a grape being slowly pushed to the bottom. As you can tell, I am not too happy at the current moment, and was wondering if anyone else has had similar situations, and if so how you got people to start doing thigs? Or, should I just start making things mandatory?