Eight Brothers Walk Into a Bar…

Howdy, Internets!

Starting something like this is always the hardest part. Once a conversation like this gets rolling, there’s no shutting it up – but there’s always a little bit of awkwardness at the beginning as people filter in and make themselves comfortable.

To try to get the ball rolling a bit, I present the following “make believe” scenario. You can use it as a jumping-off point, or completely ignore it… up to you. Please post responses in a new post!

We’re all just hanging out, a bunch of alums lazing about in comfy chairs, our feet on the table, happy to be together and doubly happy not to be stuck in a caucus. Suddenly one of these young kids walks in, someone we vaguely recognize as being a vice president of one of the chapters. She sees an empty seat among us and sits down on the edge, not quite sure if she’s welcome.

“I’m going to be VP next year,” she tells us, “and my chapter has had a few bad years lately in the whole recruitment and education department. It seems like we don’t recruit the right people, and the ones we get seem to all get discouraged and drop out before Third Degree. I don’t want to be like that – I want to be a good VP, but I don’t know what to do differently. How were you guys recruited? What made you stick with it so long? What can you tell me that would help me be a better VP than the people who have come before me?”