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[ladyg_tpapratt]

hey sisters. i am from the pratt colony and i could use some advice from more experienced sisters on how to go about rush. because we are at an art school getting people to just listen to us and think of us a group that is not like the ones you see on sorority life. they don't seem to want to go greek to be different and in actuality they are all conforming to their own group. i need help sisters. if anybody could offer some ideas on how to get around this problem or some general rush ideas that worked for you( games, activites, etc) please fill me in. we could really use the help. we are about 5 members away from becoming a chapter and we want it desperately. thank you. YITBOS- lady g

[ThetaPhiAngel]

Well, I don't know how much help I can be but I can tell you basically what my chapter/campus does. My school is predominantly a commuter school and pretty anti-greek for the number of students we have. Anyway, we usually have about 4 rush events: the first one is a getting to know each other night with ice breaker games, the second is a philanthropy night - for example, this semester we made Valentine's Day cards for the troops overseas, the third night was a game night - we had puzzles and silly games that no one really played, instead we all ended up just talking, and the fourth night was an ice cream social.

I only rushed this past semester, but I really liked the fact that it was so laid back. I missed the first night, and I was the only rushee at the other events, but it was really comfortable just getting to know everyone.

Before all the rush events we have a Meet the Greeks night where all the GLOs set up a table with information on their organizations. I didn't go to this because it was kind of intimidating but it's a pretty good idea for a campus that doesn't have formal rush.

All I can suggest is lots of fliers, lots of letters so people on campus see you, maybe setting up a website, and talking to girls about rush/sororities - explaining it's not what they probably think it's like. Hope this helped a little!

YITBOS

[upsilontpa]

Hi ladyg_tpapratt! I'm from Kappa chapter, and I know that one thing that worked for us this spring was getting our friends to join. Probably about half of our 40 person chapter joined because current sisters brought their friends up to our suite to meet the sisters. This semester during recruitment, we just used the same strategy of getting our friends outside the sorority to meet our sisters, and we ended up with the largest pledge sister class on our campus-11 new sisters!
I think probably the best advice I could give is to be yourselves, to be open and meet other girls in your classes and introduce them to your friends who just so happen to be sisters. Not only would that increase your size, but it also creates a greater sense of closeness within your chapter/colony! Our chapter is extremely tight and we've gained a lot more confidence through this strategy! Are you going to leadership conference in June?