Recruitment et.al.

[Xylochick216]

I'm from Iota Psi at Elon University. For our philanthropy day, we get clothing racks from department stores and collect clothes from a clothing drive and take the PNMs shopping. They pick out an outfit, either dressy or casual, for a woman at the local shelter for abused women. They also can make a card to stick in the bag with the outfit with a simple inspirational phrase. When they're done, they "check out" at a table where some of our sisters place the items in paper shopping bags. It's always a lot of fun and sparks some good conversations. We also put facts about domestic violence on shopping bags all around the room.

Hope this helps

ITB, Sharon

[cici2004]

I'm looking for recruitment skit and preference party ideas. I'd love to see anything and everything that is out there--we're going to be revamping those two nights and I'm looking for what our other chapters do!

Thanks!

[AChiOAlumna]

For Pref night, their is a cake ceremony...do you use it? It's beautiful and perfect as it talks all about AXO...my chapter used it and all the PNM's would cry (myself included)...the chapter I advise currently doesn't use it...I hope in the future they change their minds...

[broj1834]

for our pref night, we get a few of our actives to sing "The Light of a Friend" with a few of our more recent Alumnae. It's pretty darn powerful

[dancenaxo]

Hi ladies, I just discovered this site and I'm so excited that I did! I don't think my chapter has ever been on this but I really want to get in touch with anyone and everyone to exchange ideas. I am recruitment chair for this next year and would absolutely love to hear any fun songs/cheers that you guys do and/or any fun ideas in general....outfits, decorations, philanthropy ideas (we dont do skit anymore), etc...and I would be more than happy to give you some ideas on stuff we do at cal state fullerton!! Email me if you can help! dancenaxo@hotmail.com.

[AChiOAlumna]

As far as your philanthropy day, may I recommend that you contact a local DV shelter and find out what they need. Then you can have the PNM's decorate bags that will be used to fill up with necessary items, like laundry detergent, toothpaste and toothbrushes, etc (cheap things that you can buy at 99 cent store!).

I'm an advisor from UCR and we decorate pots and fill them with AXO carnation seeds...it's cute but messy.

[Xylochick216]

Welcome to GC

At Iota Psi, we do Shopping with AXO for Philanthropy Day. We collect clothes by having clothing drives all year. At recruitment, we get some nice shopping racks from department stores and set up a "store" in the house. The PNMs are paired with a member and they shop for an outfit (business or casual) and then they decorate a card to go in the bag. The bags are then donated to Family Abuse Services in town. It's a lot of fun and very relaxing, and PNMs always LOVE it. People don't feel as if they have to be creative to pick out a nice outfit

[AChiOAlumna]

Originally posted by Xylochick216
Welcome to GC

At Iota Psi, we do Shopping with AXO for Philanthropy Day. We collect clothes by having clothing drives all year. At recruitment, we get some nice shopping racks from department stores and set up a "store" in the house. The PNMs are paired with a member and they shop for an outfit (business or casual) and then they decorate a card to go in the bag. The bags are then donated to Family Abuse Services in town. It's a lot of fun and very relaxing, and PNMs always LOVE it. People don't feel as if they have to be creative to pick out a nice outfit

This is totally cute! I'm going to have to tell our RC about this as our "activity" gets really messy and this seems to be more appropriate for women in a DV shelter!

[carebearwcu]

I'm not sure if your school allows themes for philanthropy day, but we did this during a C.O.B.:

We had a Casino Night theme. Some of our sisters are in the hospitality and tourism major, so they got real table tops for like black jack, craps, and roulette. If you don't have this resource, you can fins stuff like that in prom catalogues.

Anyway, so in different rooms of the house, we had different games set up. You play about 3 rounds with the PMNs of each game, then they get a little toiletry to go in a bag. Ater going to all the rooms and playing all the games, they all had bags full of toiletries to decorate and then we donated them to the local women's shelter. All the "dealers" and people handing out drinks and stuff wore black pants, a button up white shirt, and really cute cheap sparkly bowties.

Hope that gives ya some ideas!

[AXO Alum]

No frills is an NPC movement - not based on certain GL directors or chapters. I know we have been moving through the new plans at our campus, and BOY is it a big change!!

I always thought of "frills" as being food and such -- not a 25 min skit! Anyway, we are down to 15 min on skit, and it has to directly relate to sisterhood, not just some random skit.

As for the shopping event - I know our girls tried it one semester and it bombed. I think that it is better suited to larger chapters.

We did a "fill the basket" last year for the shelter and it was awesome! Each PNM went with a sister around the tables in the room and filled a basket with goodies. We had dish-towel bunnies, candles (of course ), lotion and chapstick, journals, etc. It was so much fun!

[JanoskoLikeWhoa]

This is for anyone who has posted a 'help i need ___ ideas' and has been told that there are millions of posts about it and to search for it.

In reality, there are about 5 good threads and 1 million posts asking for them lol

SO, I really wanted to make a successful thread where people can post all thier ideas and stuff and just have it all in one place!!! (hope it works out) and I'm starting it off with a GIGANTIC list of stuff I put together from millions of years of searching for it

I reeeeeally hope this thread grows and becomes useful!! It's SO much easier If there's ONE place to go for everything. Everyone post all your ideas here so we can have one HUGE database of ideas!!

THE LISTY!

Shirt Ideas
• NFL: nation’s finest ladies. “we scored the top draft pics, tryouts next year”
• Candyland: ‘how sweet it is to be an alpha chi’
• Around the world
• Oh, the places you’ll go with a chi o (dr. seuss)
• Armani Exchange A/X
• When your letters are in front of you, your sisters are behind you.
• "One Friend, Two Friends, Old Friends, New Friends
• It's not about what you've just become. It's about what you've always been."
• "Zeta Tau Alpha...Keeping America beautiful."
• She is more than parties and social activities...she is a way of life. She is someone to share special things with, to laugh with, and to cry with. She is someone to believe in and to trust. She is a
• "where the skies are bluer and the friendships are truer
• Star light, Star bright I got the wish I wished last night.
• "Some girls come to college to find their husbands...We came to find our bridesmaids."
• "Sometimes its worth the wait, but sometimes its worth the rush"
• "Founded in Indiana, Perfected in Texas"
• a picture of marilyn monroe from the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and it said "Gentlemen prefer Zetas. " the guys loved wearing it!
• The members will wear kelly green shirts and the new members will be wearing lime green ones. They say: Nothing runs like a Zeta.....ON BID DAY!!!! This saying is on a john deer tractor sign with a girl running. The colors are green and yellow.
• It had the "E" exclamation point symbol (from the cable channel E) only it was a "Z". On the back it said "You think you know, but you have no idea... THE FABULOUS LIFE OF A ZETA TAU ALPHA"
• “alpha chi coture” like juicy coture with “introducing our new spring line”
• I dream of alpha chi (I dream of jeanie)
• Individually unique, together complete
• Picture of a girl praying and it said “and please please please make me an alpha chi omega”
• We laugh we cry we make time fly my sisters and me best friends are we
• Up in the stars and all of the sky, there’s no better place than alpha chi.
• Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don’t have to be anyone else
• Flowery shirt: we sure know how to pick em
• We came expecting, we left remembering, we came empty we left filled, we came as many, we left as one, we came as strangers, we left as sisters, we came with nothing, we left with all.
• "Because class isnt just something you skip!"
• There are no better friends than my sisters (and it had a really cute picture of 5 girls walking on the beach hand in hand

Party Ideas

• Snowbunnies and Ski Instructors
• Alpha Chi Arrest (you get handciffed to your date)
• Mobsters and Mistresses
• Schoolgirls and Nerds
• Scrabble (everyone wears a letter and you spell out words for pics)
• My Tie (the guys bring a tie and each girl gets on as they come in, you have to find the guy whose tie you have)
• In the Line of Duty
• Caddyshack
• Millionaires and Gold Diggers
• Day-glo (everyone paints each other in a room with blacklights, super fun and a big mess)
• Witches Brew (Halloween date function)
• Barbie and Ken

[FLAgirlxox]

I was watching Gilmore Girls the other day, and I dunno if you guys watch it, but they had a fundraising thing in their town.

All the girls bought picnic baskets and made them really pretty, then bought a whole bunch of food and put it in there.

Any guy that wanted to, bid on any basket, and whoever bid the highest got to have the picnic lunch with whichever girl it was who made it.

I thought this would be really fun to do!

[AXWhoah]

Just to let you know, a couple of years ago we also did the shopping philanthropy for rush and it was a total bomb, all of the rushees hated it. I think it depends on where you are, how many girls are going through etc....because it doesn't always work, just an FYI