recruiting with no house

[TDX89]

Originally Posted by PANTHERTEKE

Yeah, what Kevin said. It all depends what your campus is like.

If your school is a big competitive school in the SEC that has a ton of fraternities and everyone has a house, and you don't, then recruitment isn't easy at all.

But if your campus is a majority commuter campus where most students live off-campus and only a few, if any, fraternities have a house then it shouldn't be a problem.

my school is big,and does have over 20 fraternities but only 7-10 actually have real houses, and a few of those are not even good fraternities, like for example we have a chi psi and a alpha sigma phi, both of which have houses but nobody cares about them. while at the same time sigep had 20 pledges this past spring.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by TDX89

my school is big,and does have over 20 fraternities but only 7-10 actually have real houses, and a few of those are not even good fraternities, like for example we have a chi psi and a alpha sigma phi, both of which have houses but nobody cares about them. while at the same time sigep had 20 pledges this past spring.

How can I phrase this.... I think that getting rid of a ranking mentality, and not putting down other houses/chapters, might help boost morale. If you boost morale, it will be evident on the faces and in the way that your actives present themselves.

Start working on the brothers who are already there. If you do the work from within, from increasing the bonds among the fraternity members to raising your gpa, people will notice that. People will want to be a part of that.

And for what it's worth structure does not necessarily a strong fraternity make. It has its obvious advantages, but there are a myriad of things that you can do to increase your fraternity's reputation. If you make something an issue, then others will see it as an issue as well.