Spring Break
Rushin' around campus
Kayla Crow/staff reporter
Issue date: 9/22/05 Section: News
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Fraternities on campus have been busy getting their names out and trying to let students know what is special about their organization.
Fraternities have been putting up fliers advertising activities that they have held, including games, parties and food.
Members have also been wearing their letters around campus and introducing themselves to potential new members.
Another way fraternities have gotten their name out is by setting up booths at the "Welcome Back Barbecue" and at last Monday night's informational meeting in the Grand Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
The purpose of Monday's meeting was to let potential members become acquainted with the different organizations.
"All the fraternities have tables set up in the Grand Ballroom," said Matt O'Malley, a senior communication studies major and member of Phi Kappa Theta. "That way people can get to meet guys from all the different fraternities."
The open house portion of rush began Tuesday night with all of the fraternities participating.
During the open houses, potential new members were able to walk around Greek Court and visit with the fraternity members.
"During the open houses, guys can walk around and have food and get to talk to the fraternities in a different environment," said Mitch Forney, a junior communication studies major and the vice president of membership development for the Interfraternity Council.
The open houses also let people meet the men that they see around campus and find out what their fraternities are about.
"They get to walk around and see the guys from (Monday) night and get to see their letters," O'Malley said.
Phi Kappa Theta, like many of the fraternities on campus did have free food for the rush participants, O'Malley said.
After the last open house on Thursday, the fraternity members will decide who they want to invite to join their organization.
"The brothers meet and decide who they like," said O'Malley. "We decide who we want and who to invite to the formal 'invite-only smoker.'"
The people who the fraternities decide they like are offered a bid, and then go and pick it up at the Student Life Office.
After a student picks up a bid, they have accepted the invitation to become a member of that specific fraternity and can attend formal, invite-only events, Forney said.
The fraternity thinks very carefully about whom they extend a bid to, so as to ensure that their new members represent the fraternity in a good way.
"We invite only those among the top of the guys," O'Malley said.
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