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04-24-2012, 11:16 PM
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Since it's time to split hairs, a male graduate of a fraternity is an alumnus. Alumni is a group of men or men and women.
I am a female member of a fraternity. So therefore I get to give you all the wasted advice I want. And my advice is to just stop. Any fraternity that won't summer rush is doomed to failure. There's no other way around that. And not getting that rushing men is just befriending strangers REALLY doesn't get even the most basic processes of fraternity life. Which winds me back around to just stop.
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04-24-2012, 11:45 PM
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Since it's time to split hairs, a male graduate of a fraternity is an alumnus. Alumni is a group of men or men and women.
I am a female member of a fraternity. So therefore I get to give you all the wasted advice I want. And my advice is to just stop. Any fraternity that won't summer rush is doomed to failure. There's no other way around that. And not getting that rushing men is just befriending strangers REALLY doesn't get even the most basic processes of fraternity life. Which winds me back around to just stop.
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Good advice.
It's got the male fraternity chapter founder seal of approval. Know your Latin.
That said he's going to fail just because he doesn't do the right thing. My personal experience involved a lot of trial and error (and a lot of really embarrassingly bad error). Do I wish I knew then what I knew now? Yeah, we'd have been a lot better off.
My chapter had a few more advantages than his entity does, but they plausibly could make it. I don't have high hopes with their summer choices, but it could be done.
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04-25-2012, 07:59 AM
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I count one troll and one person not using his brain in this thread. Just saying.
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04-25-2012, 10:23 AM
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All jokes aside, it is one thing to blast the OP for being a fool and not understanding the demographics and collegiate/post-collegiate experiences of GCers. However, it is beginning to appear as though you all feel slighted and are therefore begging the OP to take opinions. Do you all really care? LOL. You all are doing these usernames a huge favor by even responding to these threads. Wooptydoo if the OP doesn't know his head from his ass. Imagine if these threads were responded to like many NPHC threads are. Silence.
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04-25-2012, 10:29 AM
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Imagine if these threads were responded to like many NPHC threads are. Silence.
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I needed to read this message this morning; am applying it to a situation I'm currently in. Really difficult to practice restraint of pen and tongue; however, DrPhil, silence is deafening, indeed.
 Have a nice day, everyone.
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04-25-2012, 10:44 AM
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All jokes aside, it is one thing to blast the OP for being a fool and not understanding the demographics and collegiate/post-collegiate experiences of GCers. However, it is beginning to appear as though you all feel slighted and are therefore begging the OP to take opinions. Do you all really care? LOL. You all are doing these usernames a huge favor by even responding to these threads. Wooptydoo if the OP doesn't know his head from his ass. Imagine if these threads were responded to like many NPHC threads are. Silence.
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Ha, it's true. As I said in the last thread, we don't really care one way or the other.. It's his life. He can choose to fail, and that's on him.
Kevin, stop being all helpful!
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04-25-2012, 01:50 PM
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Please clarify so we can help with advice:
1- How many fraternities are currently on campus?
2- How long have they been chartered? (If you know)
3 - Approximate size of each group?
I'm asking in order to get an idea about your campus. This information can help with where we can guide you.
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04-25-2012, 02:02 PM
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Please clarify so we can help with advice:
1- How many fraternities are currently on campus?
2- How long have they been chartered? (If you know)
3 - Approximate size of each group?
I'm asking in order to get an idea about your campus. This information can help with where we can guide you.
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Thanks, thats helpful.
Theres 8 NIC fraternities to my knowledge on campus and 2 of them are colonies which one got started last semester and another last year. 2 fraternities have only been around in the last 2 years. The other 4 have been here for a while. One has been here since 2001, other 3 since the 90s. Each group varies in size. Some have 70-80 members, some have 30-40, some even have 20-30.
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04-25-2012, 02:08 PM
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Thanks, thats helpful.
Theres 8 NIC fraternities to my knowledge on campus and 2 of them are colonies which one got started last semester and another last year. 2 fraternities have only been around in the last 2 years. The other 4 have been here for a while. One has been here since 2001, other 3 since the 90s. Each group varies in size. Some have 70-80 members, some have 30-40, some even have 20-30.
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Okay.
Now:
1- What's the approximate size of your school?
2- Is it in a large urban area? Medium sized town? Small, college style town?
3- Are there dorms on campus?
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04-25-2012, 07:47 PM
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Okay.
Now:
1- What's the approximate size of your school?
2- Is it in a large urban area? Medium sized town? Small, college style town?
3- Are there dorms on campus?
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We might be able to help us if you tell us where you go to school or at least what conference (if any) it is in. For instance, if it is in the SEC conference, that may be different than if it is a Big Ten or Big East school. What state are you in? What is your campus culture? These things are helpful to know in order to answer your questions.
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04-26-2012, 12:11 AM
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Thanks, thats helpful.
Theres 8 NIC fraternities to my knowledge on campus and 2 of them are colonies which one got started last semester and another last year. 2 fraternities have only been around in the last 2 years. The other 4 have been here for a while. One has been here since 2001, other 3 since the 90s. Each group varies in size. Some have 70-80 members, some have 30-40, some even have 20-30.
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Out of 8 fraternities, you didn't like ANY of them? Why? This is far different from the original picture you painted of a school with "no traditions." The 90s are 20 years ago, and a school with groups sustaining 80 members hardly can be classified as "nothing" where Greek life is concerned. Let me show you a school where the groups (all of them) struggle to break 30, then we'll talk.
If you are expecting SEC or Big 10-type Greek life to happen at a commuter school, it's not going to, unless the school makes a drastic and overly quick turnaround in the type of student it recruits and their policies (i.e. requiring all underclassmen to live on campus, etc). That applies, no matter who you choose to colonize with.
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04-25-2012, 07:00 PM
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Y'all are not paying attention. That article couldn't possibly have anything relevant for the op. a female found it. Besides, he needs a break this summer.
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04-26-2012, 06:44 PM
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There are 2 colonies currently in place and STILL you can't find a home within an existing situation? I smell founderitis. Or rejectment from every existing chapter AND colony. With 2 current colonies on campus, I can imagine no NIC fraternity would jump on board to a 3rd that can't keep up with the two colonies that are competing in size with the existing chapters. There is a point of diminishing return, and even if you were enthusiastic about recruiting members, you'd still have trouble attracting a viable group from the leftovers of the existing fraternities and two apparently successful colonies.
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