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Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE
This is so painfully simple. Greeks need to take over freshman move in process from letter of introduction in July to actually moving the freshmen into the dorms (I realzie you will have many who are commuters but at least you are getting the attention of one group) and all greeks should have a Go Greek kind of shirt. They can them tell the parents about the merits of membership, panhel can sponsor coffee and cake and hand out flyers. After moving in to your dorm, everyone can use a drink and a snack and you could get your message acros so these women would at least consider membership!
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I do love that idea: it makes a big difference.
For COB, we do tailgates before football games (w/o alcohol and we will watch them on TV for PNMs without tickets), games nights with board games, picnics, Taco Tuesday, ice skating, cookie decorating, etc. A really popular event is to have a breakfast before classes with bagels, coffee, OJ, etc. so PNMs can pop in and out as their class schedule permits.
Our most popular COB event (which is the one that won me over) is an Info Night. We order pizza, play ice breakers, and present the sorority history, our philanthropies, our socials, show pictures, etc. The PNMs love it because they see how much the sorority means to current sisters and learn a lot about the sisterhood they may join. It does a lot to dispel doubts.
Have you tried having a theme? This is silly and fun, but for our chapter both actives and PNMs have loved COB recruitment themes. My favorite theme was the Reality TV Recruitment.
Good luck!
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