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I don't know what to say. I want to offer advice and felt that I should at least reply to your post so that you know there are sisters thinking of you. I have never been in this kind of position before therefore I have no idea what you are going through. I will try to offer you something. Because I joined my chpater the semester after they installed I knew a lot of charter sisters. I have often heard them talk about what they went through in getting there charter.
As you stated above it realy does take a lot of time and energy. You have to try to wear your letters as often as possible. I find that when the sorority wears the same shirt on the same day it gets more attention than everyone wearing a different shirt on the same day (something to try if you havent already). Advertise your event in the school news paper and if you can make cute flyers to put on girls dorm doors. Also where I am from we have what we call "storming the dorms" when we knock on doors in the dorms and talk to girls about oour organization and hand them a flyer of when we are having an event and invite them to it! Panhellenic does this every Fall before formal recruitment. I don't see why it wouldnt work for ya'll. We really pick up a lot of girls doing it. I find that if you talk to them when you hand them the flyer you will hear a lot of girls say that they aren't the "sorority girl type", if you do a good job of dispelling this sterotype you have a great chance that this girl will come to your event. To do this simply ask what they think the sorority girl type is...when they rattle of the usual (blonde, rich, skinny, hoe, snobby) simply state how you are none of that and tell them what wonderful things sigma has to offer...tell them to come by and give it a chance...there is no commitment in simply stopping by.
I would say have an event in a your house or in a large room in the student center. Serve refreshments, have some scrapbooks out, have the sisters wear similar outfits, have fresh flowers, have sigma stuff on a table like sailboats and other cutesy stuff (some in black tops white bottom, others in white tops and black bottoms ... i found out thiat this is a cute combination). Talk to the girls you invite make sure the sisters meet and have plenty of time with all of them. When you think you have done the best you can at the end of the night get the girls phone numbers before they leave and tell them you will give them a call. Call the girls you want to ask to join and invite them for another event or (considering your time restraints) simply run over to their house and give them their Bid (or however you do it). Don't forget to call the girls you aren't giving bids to and let them down gently.
This is really the best advice I can give considering your time crunch. Please let us know what you decide to do and how things turn out. I know I will be on pins and needles until we hear from you again!
Sigma Love and Mine,
Brenda
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J&W Colony in need of lots of help
I don't have different ideas from the previous posts, but I will talk to some other girls in my chapter (AA) and see if we can come up with anything. Our thoughts are with you! SLAM!
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