Big/Little Brother program

[pkt1906]

Does anyone have a good system of pairing up big and little brothers? We usually have the associates pick their top 3 choices, and break it down from that. It not a flawless system, and parts could be considered unfair to both brothers and associates.

I was thinking something where the brothers can have choices, and the associates equally...but not sure what to do...

any suggestions? - this would be a great help

Thanks

[33girl]

Originally Posted by pkt1906

Does anyone have a good system of pairing up big and little brothers? We usually have the associates pick their top 3 choices, and break it down from that. It not a flawless system, and parts could be considered unfair to both brothers and associates.

I was thinking something where the brothers can have choices, and the associates equally...but not sure what to do...

any suggestions? - this would be a great help

Thanks

For our bigs/littles, the pledges picked their top 3 and the sisters picked their top 3. The membership director matched them and if more than one pledge put the same sister first, the sister got to pick who she wanted.

If the littles are the only ones picking, they might pick someone who is a fun guy to hang out with, but not necessarily will be the best big brother or mentor as far as the fraternity is concerned.

Hope this helps!!

[Day13]

Go with what 33girl said. Its a very "sorority-esque" way of assigning the bigs but it does work. Also, a tack on that you might like (or maybe not) is if 1 person is overwhelmingly picked to be a big brother you might not let them have any littles. This person is obviously very popular and could be more useful to the entire class as opposed to just one pledge.

Another good requirement is to have them meet up with each other at least once a week for anything. Study, lunch, video games, tv, just something. A ropes course where you have to have each other belay each other, builds trust.