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Originally Posted by DJ AJ
So I am apart of a fraternity at California State University Northridge. We are a commuter school sadly and it is very difficult for us to get numbers. We have just lost our house, so our rush events have to be held on campus. Our chapter is taking the loss of the house hard and their moral is down. We have a history of bad recruitment in numbers, we wish to change this.
Does any one have any ideas of how to get people to join at a commuter school? Or perhaps just a rush event on campus that will attract people to come later in the day to check us out?
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I'm from FIU, which is like.. the mother of all commuter schools. However, we (as in most fraternities) still have successful rushes and it didn't stop my particular chapter from being the top TKE chapter in recruitment this past school year. And we don't have our house yet, only 2 of the 11 IFC chapters have houses.
Our Rush Schedule this past Summer Rush (which I'm guessing your campus doesn't have) looked something like this: Monday - Hookah Night, Tuesday - Billiards Night, Wednesday - Pig Roast + Meet the Brothers, Thursday - Poker Night.
Only the Pig Roast was on-campus, in the Housing Quad. But if you can host events off-campus then do that.
However, if you're waiting until Rush Week to pick up guys then you're screwed. The best chapters anywhere are the ones that have guys lined up for a pledge class long before the official Rush Week.
But then that goes into the whole issue of Recruitment vs Rush and I'm too lazy to type that up now, lol. You're chapter just has to learn how to recruit guys before Rush Week (e.g. holding pre-rush recruitment events)
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