Rush 2006/2007 Thread

SigmaPsi_Star · #1 11-29-2006, 02:42 PM

So, this thread is a little old, but I figured that you'd all be at least interested in finding out more rush results. I'm not a Beta (If I were male, I'd totally want to be though), but I'm very close with the Beta chapter on my campus, and since none of them post on GC I'll let you guys know for them.

The Lambda Kappa - Beta Chapter (Case Western) had a very successful rush this semester, I'm not sure how many bids were extended, but they wound up with six quality men in their pledge program. Two of the pledges are sophomores, the other four are freshmen. Since the semester is now coming to a close, the active chapter is starting to get excited about their trip to oxford and cincinati for initiation (they really do get excited about it, and I bet taking a trip like that is a great bonding experience). If all six pledges are initiated, the chapter will have 16 members, which seems small, but is stellar for them since (as I'm sure at least some of you know) in recent years they had gotten very small, as in at the start of the Fall 2005 semester there were four active brothers, and all of them were seniors. Through lots of hard work and dedication the members of this chapter are working on not only getting numbers up, but keeping their brotherhood strong, they aren't just handing out bids to anyone who shows up to stuff, in my oppinion if a chapter had to be almost 100% rebuilt by sophomores, you couldn't have picked a better, more dedicated group of guys.

Sorry for the amount of writing there, I love that chapter quite a lot so I get excited for them and want to share.

Coramoor · #2 12-05-2006, 07:21 AM

I do wish that the General Fraternity would dedicate more resources to Recruitment.

My chapter for instance went from 17 guys to 70+ in a very short time because we worked on recruitment all the time. If the G.F. really took time to spend time with chapters and work with them most of the problems we have would be worked out.

Oldest_Pledge · #3 12-05-2006, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Coramoor

I do wish that the General Fraternity would dedicate more resources to Recruitment.

I whole-heartedly agree. When I was with the Indiana State Univeristy colony in '83, I felt we were on our own. I never met anyone from the three nearest chapters or national. No one ever came to our events (OK, they were only two social events that semester).

We were competing with a new Pi Kappa Alpha chatper and I think Tau Kappa Epsilon has just recruited a whole Freshman dorm floor. My mind may not have the full time-line with TKE coming to ISU.

If an equal amount of effort was given to helping chapters recruit as there is with the targeted expansion, I think our Brotherhood would be well served.

I will leave the details as to which chapters are "selected" for recruitment help for anther thread.

ZZ-kai- · #4 12-07-2006, 09:40 PM

You can throw money at a chapter, resources at a chapter, alumni help and AO resources...etc. If you have a chapter that is apathetic, lazy or just plain old bad, no help will get them to recruit better. It starts from within. The chapter MUST want to recruit, and nobody but THEMSELVES can recruit for them. My chapter is a perfect example of this.

Oldest_Pledge · #5 12-08-2006, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ZZ-kai-

You can throw money at a chapter, resources at a chapter, alumni help and AO resources...etc. If you have a chapter that is apathetic, lazy or just plain old bad, no help will get them to recruit better. It starts from within. The chapter MUST want to recruit, and nobody but THEMSELVES can recruit for them. My chapter is a perfect example of this.

True. However, there can exist, at times, situations where a Chapter is honestly trying yet not succeeding.

It is these chapter that need to be identified and helped.

a.e.B.O.T. · #6 12-18-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Oldest_Pledge

True. However, there can exist, at times, situations where a Chapter is honestly trying yet not succeeding.

It is these chapter that need to be identified and helped.

this is too true. A lot of times it is the campus that is lazy and apathetic. A lot of campuses are dominately GDI, and changing that doesnt happen over night. However, I will say that there isnt much the AO can do, when the AO come to help with our recruitment, we just end up re-explaining everything, and it all ends up redundant.

Coramoor · #7 12-19-2006, 12:14 AM

Personally, I don't agree with the GDI excuse.

Maybe 15% of my chapter ever actually came to college and wanted to join a fraternity. Quite a few guys outright hated fraternities before they even know what one was or who we were.

It takes a lot of work and experience to know how to rush guys like that, but in the end most of them are more likely to be good brothers than guys that had to join a fraternity.