merger fraternities brotherhood experience and rush
by: RushSerious question. I am a freshman planning to rush this fall. I don't care about tiers. I know the rankings here are meaningless. I want to rush fraternities that have good balance and solid brotherhood. I don't know what to think about merger fraternities. Reading comments here, it sounds like merger fraternities have to worker harder on making their brotherhood strong and it's not certain they can avoid cliques based on their previous identities. Should I avoid rushing them?
Commentby: Right
by: Me
#4by: Senior
In my house, juniors and seniors still attend most social events and are involved in leadership. Houses with weak brotherhoods lack upperclassmen participation. Merger houses are a slap in the face to upperclassmen that are usually led by sophomores who want to try to quickly rise to the next tier and better PGPs the easy way. Think about it. If you can't recruit better guys during rush, a merger is an admission that the only way to improve is to try to take on the identity of another house.
by: Damn
^youre telling me upperclassmen go to 2-3 mixers a week with freshman girls? Fckin weird bro. Bars exist for a reason
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by: Senior
Didn't say all the mixers, but pre-games, definitely. Plus my house is not just a place to party. We actually do more thank drink beer. Seniors contribute a lot to philanthropy, IMs, and chapter leadership. But, hey dude, if your fraternity experience is just chasing freshman women, I guess sophomores probably are the big men in your house.
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by: Smack
by: Mmm
Unless your philanthropy is winterfest or mudbowl then it doesn't really matter because none of the other ones actually generate any money or interest worth talking about lol
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#5by: Rush
Question about how a merger fraternity works after the merger. Do the merging brothers continue to identify with their old house, or do they actually refer to themselves as members of the new house? For example, are the Phi Delts who join Lambda Chi going to say they are still Phi Delts or will they say they are Lamdbas? Same question for Sig Eps at DU?
by: LOl
They disaffiliate with their old chapter so they're wearing letters of the new house
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by: Bro
^wearing the letters of another house must feel like those opportunists who transfer from Michigan to Ohio State. Talk about weird.
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by: Right
That's not building brotherhood in a fraternity, that's just getting a group of guys together to share the cost of partying for a couple years.
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by: Merge not
In three years I've been here, not one merger has succeeded in fully combining two brotherhoods. Throwing parties under the same name is not equal to being unified under the same traditions. Not saying don't rush them, but don't believe all the hype.
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