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instead of having big blow out open house parties, divide your chapter into smaller groups of 3 to 5 members per group and have them each recruit one guy. take him bowling, to the movies, to a sporting event, invite him over to play cards(no gambling), pizza, for a cup of coffee.....you get the idea. the potential new member(pnm) gets to know 3 or 5 guys pretty well and is a lot less intimidated than if he was having to walk into an open house, and did not know anyone. if the fraternity members like the guy, they could ask him to do something else in a few days.
after all the groups have met with their pnm, you could have all the pnms over to meet the whole chapter. hopefully these guys would pledge and you could start the process all over with a new set of guys.
assign a good rusher to each group, someone who is outgoing and helps make people feel at ease. assign someone to be the coordinator for the group-this person reports back to you. he tells you who the group has contacted, what their activity is and what the group thought of the guy, what their next plans are and so on and so forth. when your guys feel they have hit it off with the pnm-or after he pledges-he should be asked if he knows anyone he thinks the chapter should meet.
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