How to motivate girls to go to social events!

[amIblue?]

From an NPC perspective, you can't do anything questionable insofar as hazing whether or not your nationals are present.

Could you develop some sort of point system and offer prizes for the sisters with the most points? Assign a different number of points for different types of events, and tally them up at the end of the month, semester, etc.

Talk to your advisers. They will have had experience with these types of issues, and they should be able to offer some suggestions.

[AlwaysSAI]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Could you develop some sort of point system and offer prizes for the sisters with the most points? Assign a different number of points for different types of events, and tally them up at the end of the month, semester, etc.

My Phi Sig chapter used the point system (minus the prizes) and it worked really well. Each brother had to earn a total number of points made up of a certain number of required points in each category (social, service, initiation, alumnae, scholarship, etc) for the entire semester.

Any brother that didn't meet the point requirement was brought up for suspension the following semester.

[33girl]

Just the title of this thread makes me sad. You can't get girls to go to SOCIAL events??? What are their excuses?

Are the events all dry? Is that part of the problem? (If they aren't dry, it may be that they cannot make them mandatory.)

Are they weeknights or weekends? Are your sisters all in very demanding majors?

When you vote on whether or not you're going to have a mixer, put it in the bylaws (if you can, if not just have the social chair state it very strongly before the vote) that if someone votes Yes - they are committing to being there. None of this "oh, I thought other people would like it, so I voted yes even though I have no intention of going." Better to have two really awesome mixers a semester with the majority of sisters there and everyone having fun, than to try and have a full social calendar and doing what you have done now, which is run your rep into the ground because no one shows up.

After typing all this, I reread your post. Do you mean MIXERS (your sorority and a fraternity having a private party, no outsiders) or do you just mean regular old fraternity parties? If it's the latter, there really isn't jack you can do if it's not a voted on event. Just think about this the next time rush comes around and don't pledge a bunch of bumps on logs.

I would also have your social chair and programming VP (or whatever she's called) contact your HQ. If this is your first year, more than likely your HQ had a part in selecting the current members of your chapter. Let them know they have selected some members who are missing a very important component of being a well rounded young woman.

[HQWest]

This isn't clear from your post but it is something that came up when I was advising. Other chapters on campus were having Socials or Mixers - closed parties with only the girls from one or two sororities and only guys from one or two fraternities. We are going to try having more Date Parties - each girl brings her date or a Grab a Date - you grab someone on the way to the party.

Apparently we've been overlooking the fact that most of the girls already have a steady beau and they aren't all in one or two fraternities. These girls felt awkward going to parties without said beau in tow so they didn't show.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by HQWest

This isn't clear from your post but it is something that came up when I was advising. Other chapters on campus were having Socials or Mixers - closed parties with only the girls from one or two sororities and only guys from one or two fraternities. We are going to try having more Date Parties - each girl brings her date or a Grab a Date - you grab someone on the way to the party.

Apparently we've been overlooking the fact that most of the girls already have a steady beau and they aren't all in one or two fraternities. These girls felt awkward going to parties without said beau in tow so they didn't show.

Mixers aren't hookup parties. Girls should be able to go to them without their boyfriends. If they refuse to go to social events without their beaux, that's another part of the problem.

We always had a party for Bid Day (back when you could do such things) rather than a mixer, because we did have sisters whose boyfriends weren't Greek and we felt it was nice for them to be able to invite their guys to share their special night with them. That being said, we still scheduled regular mixers.