Spring Initiations

[GammaZeta]

Thanks Doc,

My school didn't have continuous recruitment, so it seemed a little odd to me.

At Umass, about 75% of the recruits were in the Fall semester, and the rest during Spring.

Now that I look back on it, we really only had 2-3 weeks to recruit! Pretty much by late September, eveything was done.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by docroc67

Brother Tom,

We are very small at this time. Just laying the foundation for a strong return! There are 26 active fraternities on campus. About 30% of our undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority.

It is a very old and traditional fraternity system. Lots of legacies and wealthy patrons. A million dollar gift from a fraternity Alum to our Greek Affairs Office is just one example.

Our big Chapters are Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha Order with over 130 members each. Lambda Chi Alpha is at number 24 in the line-up. But, not for long!

I would guess that the average fraternity has about 70 members. Of course, our sororities are huge with a number of them with 175 members or more.

Our campus has all kinds of monuments, memorials, traditions, and events that are part of our Greek heritage. Someday we will even have a Greek Letter Society Museum on campus!

I hope this answers your question.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Z-U Zeta

It is the first step isnt it?

The very best of luck. It is a great school and We should be there of course!

Maybe in answer to GammaZetas point, Recruitment should never stop!

We used to have Major recruitment in the Fall Semester, but Spring Semester was not forgoten like it is today!

It should be an on going process!

[GammaZeta]

I agree Tom, recruitment should never stop.

I guess we just followed the campus traditions.

I think it is a good idea to have several classes of AM's come out of one semester, even dividing a whole semester into two sections.

[LXA grits]

Epsilon-Xi Zeta at Florida Southern College recently initiated 7 new brothers (one being a holdover from last semester), which brings the total initiates to about 1025ish...with the current chapter around 40ish.

Epsilon-Omega Zeta at University of Miami (FL) hopes to initiate 10 associate members in Mid April. After that initiation, the total chapter count should be at 1540ish...with the current chapter at 50ish.

On a side note, anyone who's interested in visiting us in Miami for initiation on the 14'th of April can email me and we can set it up. We'd love to have you.

Yours in Z A X ,

Chris Hall

[CWRU_LCA]

The Alpha-Nu Zeta is going to be initiating 5 new members on April 6. This will put our actives at about 30. Our I-Week is backed right up to greek week, so we have our work cut out for us.

In ZAX,

Matt Meyer
High Kappa

[lambdachi1264az]

Hey,
We here at Alpha Zeta initiated 9 new members on March 31st. That brings our current active number up to 27 and we will hopefully keep growing from there with the return of two abroad brothers in the fall and only losing 5 seniors to graduation.

[banditone]

Sorry to crash.... TOM, if you go to the following link you can see all kinds of stats about Greeks at Univ. of Miami Ohio. They take there GLO's and statisics very seriously.

http://www.units.muohio.edu/saf/GRA/...tatistics.html

[Tom Earp]

Appreciate the heads up shaun!

Come over and visit with us anytime!

WOW, just checked the link and have never seen this big a spread on Greeks for any campus that I have checked. Most, you have to dig to find if can!

Also in checking, I find it has not been updated since 2005! Sad!

Add a rebuilding effort by LXA.

[docroc67]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Appreciate the heads up shaun!

Come over and visit with us anytime!

WOW, just checked the link and have never seen this big a spread on Greeks for any campus that I have checked. Most, you have to dig to find if can!

Also in checking, I find it has not been updated since 2005! Sad!

Add a rebuilding effort by LXA.

Brother Tom,

Take another look. Click on Fall 2006 for information as of December, 2006! Also click on the Sorority 2007 link for 2007 Rush information. The Fraternity stuff has not been released yet.

The Miami University Greek Affairs Director, Steve Dealph, is a Lambda Chi. He has been a major player in our return to campus.

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond,
Class of 1967
Miami University

[Tom Earp]

Thanks Mike, I will go back and check it.

But, I see on their main site that was linked above, it does not list LXA nor the link in seaching does it list LXA.

At the bottom of the page is shows 2005 as last update.. That is where I got that.

At least there is a Brother or two in LXA Corner!

[boz130]

They're in good hands...Brother Steve Dealph (Phi-Xi/Southern Indiana) is in charge of Greek Affairs.