Men's Fraternities

[BFulton]

It just hit me that I don't know the answer to this question: in general, how do men's fraternities offer membership to those men they'd like to have as brothers? I know they usually have rush events, but I can't remember ever hearing whether they issue formal bids, etc. after that time.

[Corbin Dallas]

After our LOOOOOOONG rush of 7 weeks, comes a day many freshmen dread, bid tuesday. All freshmen who are hoping to get a bid have to be at the union by 8am. They then stand in line for a while, get a little white envelope with their name on it, go in a booth, and open the envelope up. there will be at least one card in there, a no pref card. There could be as many as 8 other cards, one from each fraternity. you can sign a bid then, and at 5pm join your fraternity for whatever it is that house does to celebrate. Or, you can sign the no pref card, in which you can't have any contact with the fraternity members besides the freshmen for 2 weeks, after which you can go back and sign a bid if you got one to begin with. that's about as formal as it gets at Rose. Hope this helps.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Zeta Chapter
Ros-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[BFulton]

Steve,

Thanks!

[Corbin Dallas]

No problem! I forgot to mention. The rest of the year is "informal rush". This is just when anyone who is interested in us, makes a point to get to know us. After a while, we might bring him up for a bid, and offer him one. He can then accept it or not. It's much more relaxed, and nobody is holding anything back as with formal rush, where there are certain things you CAN NOT do.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Zeta Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.