Rush 2006/2007 Thread

[Coramoor]

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]

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-]

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]

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.]

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]

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.

[a.e.B.O.T.]

Alpha eta just finished the year's formal recruitment session with 9 guys. A great number here at Denison's small greek community.