How do you reposition your fraternity?

[greekone87]

Okay, I've been reading all the posts and...

1) Already admitted I'm sort of superficial.

2) I have plenty an idea of what brotherhood means. I've driven 50 miles at 3am to help out a brother who was stranded in the middle of no where with no money and a busted car.

3) I clearly have my bro's backs, whether they act like me or not. I'm sure they do too...well maybe not in a fight...but else wise. I would never let anyone seriously disrespect any of them.

4) The question posed was how do you reposition a fraternity's reputation. We're being talked about on campus as the fat fobby nerdy fraternity. And when you look at some of our brothers you see that's true. However, we also have some really sharp, motivated, sociable, athletic brothers in the fraternity, albeit a few. However, when you have a majority of the bros not really presenting themselves as well as they could, what do you do to turn around the image of the fraternity and appeal during rush to the not so fat/fobby/nerdy kids.

5) Look- I don't need anyone's validation on if I'm a non-racist or not. I know I'm not and that's all that matters. I have no problem with people with accents, fat people, or smart people. But you're not being true to yourself if you say that reputation doesn't matter when it comes to a fraternity doing well on campus. You know damn well it does.

[banditone]

greekone, first you have to take most of what is said on GC with a grain of salt. Many think this is a good place to position themselves as faultless/perfection. When we all know that's not true.

Second, it is VERY hard for a fraternity to change their image. Mainly, you will need a lot more members then just you to agree that a change is needed. Which, may be impossible (especially if a majority of the house is already made up of the type that you are trying to change from

The guys you usually hang out with in the house, what do they think of the house makeup? Perhaps this group should go out for some beers and discuss this. See if you all even have common ideas. They may be fine with it as is, and like the diversity.

What is sounds like to me is you should have probably joined one of the traditional national GLO's

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

Are you the only South Asian Fraternity on campus or are there other South Asian Fraternities on campus (i.e. recruiting from the same pool of students)?

I went to a very large school with a very large Greek community, and we only had one South Asian Fraternity. We also had one South Asian sorority, two Asian-interest fraternities, and two Asian-interest sororities.

From my experience, the girls that came to college already knowing about sororities were the ones who were looking for a NPC sorority experience. And therefore, my sorority wouldn't have been right for them. So the pool of students we were recruiting from were the girls that either didn't know what sororities were or girls who had only heard the stereotypes. As such, recruitment for us can sometimes be much more of an uphill battle than for the NPC sororities.

I imagine that South Asian fraternities may face similar difficulties too. And if there are other South Asian fraternities, then there is the added challenge of differentiating your org from the others. "Unfortunately" , since you are probably recruiting from a pool of students that doesn't know that much about what fraternities are, you are going to have a higher percentage of "fobs" than the IFC/NIC fraternities.

The South Asian fraternity on my campus was pretty well respected. They had some guys that spoke with accents but they still had a good reputation (and did well with recruitment) because they exemplified what Greek Life should be about. They won awards at Greek Oscars. They did a lot of community service. They did well academically. They had brothers on MGC exec board. They made an effort to have events with other orgs in MGC (not just socials but also community service projects).

Another thing that they did that was impressive was their dances. Every year, there is an Asian Awakenings show (different Asian orgs perform dances, songs, or skits). The guys in the South Asian fraternity always put on an awesome performance every year.