Leadership makes the Difference!

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SPRING 2008 Scholarship Application Deadline extended to February 15th - CLICK HERE to apply.

1. Mandatory participation by ALL pledges and Brothers in an organized campus activity other than Zete.  (I.e. sports, student government, clubs, honors societies, etc.)
2. Mandatory LTI attendance for all pledges and new members within their first year.
3. Each pledge classes must run its own social event and its own philanthropy.
4. Monthly Ritual meeting, and a "Sigma Rho Minute" at each meeting to review one element of our Secrets.
5. ALL Initiation fees MUST be paid before Initiation.  No fee, no initiation, no exception.

These 5 simple steps, taken in any chapter, will yield tremendous results!

 

If you've been to a convention since 2002, you've seen the silent auction that has been our largest single source of funds.  Now, ZeteKidz is launching a new web auction program! Our first web auction will begin on February 4, 2008. We want this to be for Zetes only so the auction will only begin being available online that day at http://auction.zetekids.org.  Once there, please bid recklessly on items like the ones pictured here.

February is pretty dull, anyway; this will add a little fun into the month!  This is a fundraising venture for ZeteKidz. All proceeds will go to help the causes that our participating chapters support.

Most of the items you'll see come from Ebay.  If you see a Zete item on Ebay, please don't bid against us! I promise you'll get a chance at it, and probably at a lower price. We have a group that watches Ebay for these items, and if you'd like to be a part of it, CLICK HERE to email us.

Fundraiser or not, we hate to see our brothers' Zete pins and books come up on Ebay. Please consider telling your loved ones that you'd like yours donated to ZeteKidz when the time comes. You'll be assured that it will continue to ride the proud chest of a true and loyal son of Zeta Psi.

161st Convention in Montreal
August 13 - 16, 2008

Join us for what promises to be the best attended Zete Convention in years - Honoring 125 years of Alpha Psi!

 

Spring LTI Schedule
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A New Years Challenge

I ask every Zete to donate $25 to Zeta Psi's Fraternity Endowment to support the growth of services and programs to benefit OUR Zeta Psi!  I know many of you are loyal supporters of your own chapter, but may never have donated to Zeta Psi's Annual Fund.  If that's the case, add your name to the Roll of Honor in the Circle with a small, simple step - donate $25 to ensure we maintain the services that have us at the forefront of the Fraternity world in Internships, member services, and personal, professional, and leadership development - and that helped us GO GLOBAL with our Oxford Chapter!

There are 10,000 recipients of the UpZete - I'm setting our goal at a mere 10% of that - 1000 new donors this year!  JOIN ME AND OTHERS AND TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE - DONATE $25 TODAY!  (CLICK HERE)

TKPhi, Dan Backer, YM '99, UpZete Editor.

Anthony "Dubs" Abbate, Dir. of Leadership Services

As we all start heading back from break to begin the new semester, several chapters are revving up for their major recruitment period of the year.  Our Psi Chapter at Cornell is one of those chapters, with a set goal of at least 15 new active brothers. The Psi chapter has been training under our constantly improving Leadership Training Institute method of Rolling Recruitment for several semesters now. Along with the visits of Anthony Shibata, our new staffer Pat Kepp, and our Phi Alpha Greg McElroy, much of IHQ was able to participate and aid the Psi in their recruitment efforts.

While the house at Cornell is an excellent rush tool by itself, the guys must also compete with over 40 other fraternities during a highly structured rush week at a school where around 30% are Greek, meaning they must work hard to meet their goals. Their key to success is organization. Each day, they hold a house clean-up and meeting to prepare for the day's events. They use this time to refresh each member on recruitment tools and tips to meet, get to know, and answer questions from any potential new member. The chapter hosts two events a day. During certain hours the day, the house is relatively open for guests to tour and partake in a variety of foods as well as the company of the whole brotherhood. Then at night, the atmosphere becomes more casual and festive with themed events going on. Throughout the entire week at all recruitment times, they have a number of brothers and friends of the house stationed at the door to take down contact information and other key facts about the potentials that arrive. And between the day and night events, our Cornell brothers review the list of names and facts for guys that seem to show serious interest, as well as ways to better befriend the potential recruits.

Overall, the time I spent with the Psi chapter seemed very productive, with potential new members almost always engaged by the brothers and smooth transitions between conversations and groups of members and potentials alike. It was a great time to see our recruitment methods and the benefits of formal rush come to life so fully, just because the brothers were willing to give it all their time and effort to make it work.

Pat Kepp, Leadership Consultant

If anyone had asked me six months or even six weeks ago what I would be doing right now, I would have thought I'd be sitting in a classroom at Virginia Tech.  I couldn't be happier working as a chapter consultant for Zeta Psi for the next year as I take time off from school.  This is a great opportunity not only for me, but for the fraternity as a whole because I get the chance to travel to schools I have never been to and spread ideas from Alpha Pi and other chapters around the country.  My hope is that I can help all our chapters boost their numbers, improve general operations, strengthen ritual, and take the chapter to number one on campus. 

IHQ has hit the road stronger than ever with our Canadian consultant Brandon Gurley and Southern consultant Will Woldenberg.  I started off with our Phi's conference at Tau and now have moved on to the Northeast where Anthony "Dubs" Abbate and I assisted at Cornell with their outstanding rush week and continue on to WPI and Tufts.  After a brief respite in Pearl River, I hit the road solo for 23 days out to the Midwest with stops at Penn State, Michigan, UIC, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, and Case Western.  I look forward to meeting many of you throughout my travels and at what is looking to be one of our best conventions in Montreal come August.

Phi Alpha's Message

Greg McElroy, Phi Alpha CXXXI