Fraternity Rush at Kansas

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by Kedzman

Brother,

I'll challenge you to make a slight paradigm shift. Instead of leading with Beer, Babes and Bucks - try leading with all of the attributes a top fraternity offers by way of leadership development and personal growth. What will happen is the best of the best will be attracted to you. From that, the bucks will come from higher manpower. The Babes will beat a path to your door because quality women desire to be with quality men. The Beer is simply a constant on a college campus and within fraternity culture. Everyone knows it's there. You don't need to flaunt it or promote it. Pushing parties only hurts you - it cannot help you. What I mean is, a party-centric recruitment message can scare away top students who become concerned that they will not be able to be high-achievers if the culture is too party oriented. Conversely, the party-only guys will find a home at your fraternity and they may bring little else to your chapter and put you at risk.

Again, if you lead with personal development, the bucks and babes will follow. The beer will always be there.

Nationals are supposed to say this kind of stuff, not actually mean it.

[62231]

I have no idea what you're talking about Kedzman. The chapters at my school that are on top of the social ladder are also home to the campus leaders.
I'll give an example breakdown for UF.
~130 members
~75 have some sort of leadership position in a campus organization other than the fraternity.
Probably 10-15 of those are very active in several campus organizations.
And ALL 130 know how to balance school with drinking and girls.

You're probably the same guy who claims it's too difficult to have quality and quantity in a pledge class.

[CrackerBarrel]

NIU is only about 5% Greek. This reflects poorly on the quality of Greek Life at NIU.

No, that reflects poorly on NIU.

Sigma Nu believes there is a market to create a winning organization that will appeal to those who have not been attracted to Greek Life at NIU thus far. We've accomplished that by recruiting 40 new men who would not have joined the Greek System otherwise.

So GDIs?

They have posted a 2.91 cumulative GPA as a fraternity vs. the All-Men's average of 2.70. Sigma Nu is the only NIU fraternity of the 15 that is above the All-Men's GPA making them the pre-dominant academic fraternity at NIU.

Woo hoo, I go to a school a lot better than NIU and even the chapters which are thought of as the coke-heads have a better GPA than that. They're outperforming you, at a much better school, on two hours of sleep a night. Really overacheiving there, huh?

To be the best, you have to attract the best. This new fraternity is not for average men or underachievers. We seek top students, athletes and leaders to claim the top spot amongst NIU's men's social fraternities.

Mmmhmm, and if you are attracting the best leaders, tell me again why you need a leadership development program? You said it yourself, you're a SOCIAL fraternity.