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08-04-2008, 02:23 AM
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Since you're AGR you're only competing for men who are enrolled in degree programs for ag, natural resources, and so on? I mean yes there are 52 fraternities, but isn't your pool of potential men limited by a membership requirement?
Other than hitting up 4-H and FFA, can you hit up your professors and departments for names of men, or volunteer to be mentors and orientation leaders within the college of ag and what not?
Whatever you do, please don't do a John Deere shirt and have any sayings about "pullin' hoes since 1904" or anything tacky like that. Something like "growing your food and good brotherhood" is cheesy but at least it isn't offensive.
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08-04-2008, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
Whatever you do, please don't do a John Deere shirt and have any sayings about "pullin' hoes since 1904" or anything tacky like that. Something like "growing your food and good brotherhood" is cheesy but at least it isn't offensive.
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Excellent point.
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08-04-2008, 03:50 PM
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Excellent point.
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Seriously, the t-shirts people associate with their letters (men and women) to either entice or announce membership are just so tacky. Degrading women or having some catty remark on a t-shirt is low class and pretty immature. Also copyright and trademark infringement is really not in vogue.
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08-04-2008, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
Since you're AGR you're only competing for men who are enrolled in degree programs for ag, natural resources, and so on? I mean yes there are 52 fraternities, but isn't your pool of potential men limited by a membership requirement?
Other than hitting up 4-H and FFA, can you hit up your professors and departments for names of men, or volunteer to be mentors and orientation leaders within the college of ag and what not?
Whatever you do, please don't do a John Deere shirt and have any sayings about "pullin' hoes since 1904" or anything tacky like that. Something like "growing your food and good brotherhood" is cheesy but at least it isn't offensive.
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AGR isn't agriculture specific, though that's what they focus on.
Lot of business majors in the one at Arkansas.
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08-04-2008, 12:18 PM
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AGR isn't agriculture specific, though that's what they focus on.
Lot of business majors in the one at Arkansas.
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That's what I thought. And even if it was ag specific, there are oodles of ag majors at Penn State.
Depending on the composition of your chapter, I would play up the ag angle but don't make it seem like everything you do is related to it. Some of these guys are coming from towns/situations where that's been their whole life since birth and they want a change - don't lose them before you even get started. I know that's a hard line to walk though.
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08-04-2008, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
AGR isn't agriculture specific, though that's what they focus on.
Lot of business majors in the one at Arkansas.
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But are they Ag business majors as opposed to regular business majors? It isn't that they have to actually be studying crop science or animal husbandry to be eligible for membership, but my understanding was that it is any major related to such (ag education, ag. economics, forestry, etc.). My school has a Department of Education for teachers, but the students who are studying to be FFA teachers and what not fall under Agricultural Education and therefore it is under a different heading. I'm just assuming there is a distinction at your school as well?
Hew PennState-Gamma, is that still the case or is it like Farmhouse now where that isn't a membership requirement?
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