Ideas needed

[dever860]

Originally Posted by GammaZeta

"No drinking while recruiting though! If you are going to have alcohol, don't talk about Lambda Chi..."

Oh riiiiiiiiiiiight, no drinking. wink* wink*

Heres the thing, and I know hes serious about the no drinking thing. If you have events where alcohol is involved you get guys that thing everything is a party. Don't get me wrong I like having a good time with my brothers, but I hate when people get the idea that we are only about drinking. You cant put through guys who are going to want to get drunk all of the time and never help out the chapter. It leads to bad things. Its hard to form a stable and successful chapter on alcohol.

[john1082]

We had the rush vs. party problem at North Dakota years ago. Alcohol at rush was legal, but then the guys asked sorority girls to come over to help show off the house. It turned into a scam session with all the guys trying to get set up with all the girls and little recruitment going on.

[GammaZeta]

Yes, there is a difference between a rush and party event.

I was actually going off of what PiLambda said about Hooters. I mean, you have a bunch of guys going to Hooters, looking at women, ordering Buffalo wings,and drinking....a Diet Pepsi???

Alcohol is acceptable within reasons I believe. If you have a bunch of LXA's taking potential members to a Hooters and nobody orders a beer, it may work against the chapter in some cases. Yes, it is not about partying, but you also don't want to come off as too uptight that even a beer is not acceptable.

Having a beer with potential members at a Hooters; ok. Holding the legs of a potential member while he does a keg stand; not ok.

[HONKY660]

We did a rush team concept and it work out for my chapter this spring bringing in 12 AMs, opposed to our 5 AM spring average. We called the rush team the Delta Force and made cool T-Shirts. You can always ask sororities to give you names of non-greek members and make a contest out of it, which ever sorority gives you the most name of potential AM's gets to have a mixer with you. Its a win win situation for both of you, and the new potential AM's get to meet girls. Try to rush new members during the summer through freshman orientation, and try to get members to be part of the orientation team. Just some ideas that I know have worked.

[Ottor 246]

Point 1: If you're recruiting fresmen and sophomores who are 18 or 19 years old, they probably won't be able to get served at Hooters.

Point 2: Dry rush is fine, but if you're recruiting guys who drink, you might want to see how alcohol affects them before you give them a bid. Guys who are mild-mannered and sensible can turn into the Tasmanian Devil after a few beers.

Point 3: RUSH NEVER STOPS!!! As per a discussion I had with my chapter's High Pi the other day, every time you walk on campus, you are a one-man rush event. Every person who sees you or talks to you is forming an impression of Lambda Chi Alpha. If he sees brothers having a good time in the dining hall, they remember it. If they see brothers talking to hot chicks, they remember it. Conversely, if they see you doing something stupid, they'll remember that, too. Bottom line, wear your letters and go out of your way to treat people well.

I like the Habitat for Humanity idea. Also, talk to somebody in your school's administration and tell them what you're trying to do. Ask if they have a project you could do, along with an undetermined number of non-greek volunteers, that would benefit the campus. (Wait for them to reagin conciousness before you continue.) If you're on campus for your service project, you'll be working right in front of the men you're trying to recruit, so even the ones who don't come out for the event will see you doing it. Try to find an event where you can work in teams of 2, with one brother and one non-brother so you can actually have a conversation. Recruiting is all about making friends.

[dever860]

Originally Posted by Ottor 246

Point 1: If you're recruiting fresmen and sophomores who are 18 or 19 years old, they probably won't be able to get served at Hooters.

Point 2: Dry rush is fine, but if you're recruiting guys who drink, you might want to see how alcohol affects them before you give them a bid. Guys who are mild-mannered and sensible can turn into the Tasmanian Devil after a few beers.

Point 3: RUSH NEVER STOPS!!! As per a discussion I had with my chapter's High Pi the other day, every time you walk on campus, you are a one-man rush event. Every person who sees you or talks to you is forming an impression of Lambda Chi Alpha. If he sees brothers having a good time in the dining hall, they remember it. If they see brothers talking to hot chicks, they remember it. Conversely, if they see you doing something stupid, they'll remember that, too. Bottom line, wear your letters and go out of your way to treat people well.

I like the Habitat for Humanity idea. Also, talk to somebody in your school's administration and tell them what you're trying to do. Ask if they have a project you could do, along with an undetermined number of non-greek volunteers, that would benefit the campus. (Wait for them to reagin conciousness before you continue.) If you're on campus for your service project, you'll be working right in front of the men you're trying to recruit, so even the ones who don't come out for the event will see you doing it. Try to find an event where you can work in teams of 2, with one brother and one non-brother so you can actually have a conversation. Recruiting is all about making friends.

You made my point before I got around to replying. Freshmen can't order alcohol. It would be kinda awkward to drink in front of them when they can't. We have had the problem of rushing older guys in the past few quarters. Our generation gap is going to catch up with us next year, and a lot of our older guys are going to be gone.

[Dave J 1233]

Thanks, everybody. Well, my chapter's biggest problems have always been lack of committment when it comes to rush and the fact that we don't have a proper house. The latter isn't really fixable at the moment since the housing market in Athens is godaweful, but we've already started fixing the committment problem. We're beginning to realize that after next year, half of our chapter is gone. We had trouble enough getting people to fill officer positions this election (I got hoodwinked into being Theta instead of Phi), I can't imagine how it will be next time when half the chapter is inelgible because they're graduating.

We do tell everyone to submit names for rush, but most people don't do it anyway (I freely admit I didn't because I suck at talking to people). Even with this attempt and an awesome week of Rush events, we only managed to get two people, one of which had already rushed once before but had to leave. I thought our Alumni Advisor was going to kill us. At Founders, he's going to tell our alumni not to give us any money for summer rush efforts, which I think does more harm than good and isn't logical in the least.