With new students enrolling, seniors graduating and new groups forming, each semester is a new opportunity for clubs to add to their memberships.
Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity, and the Student Organization of International Agriculture, among others, recently held membership drives.
“Our idea was to just get the information out to as many people as we could,” said Wayne Harber, Delta Sigma Pi chapter president. “If you’re not a business major, you know a business major.”
Delta Sigma Pi had a recruitment table in the Student Union on Tuesday and Thursday for two weeks and spoke to business and non-business majors. The fraternity’s members handed out fliers, Dum Dums, and Smarties with sayings like, “Don’t be a Dum Dum, join Delta Sigma Pi.”
Delta Sigma Pi has about 70 active members and holds recruitment every semester to compensate for the number of students who have recently graduated or will graduate soon, Harber said.
The Student Organization of International Agriculture sold authentic Mexican fried tacos on Monday to drive its membership numbers.
“We’ve been thinking of how to let people know about SOIA and how to increase the memberships, so during a formal meeting of the association, we decided that as an international group we have a variety of international students, and Mexico is not the exception,” said Roberto Thomas, one of two Mexican students who prepared the tacos. “We think that tacos are the most popular Mexican food, and almost everyone loves them.”
Thomas and Christian Sanchez prepared 200 tacos. The event was both a membership drive and fundraiser. Profits will be used to reimburse SOIA members for travel expenses to conferences held by the Association of International Agriculture and Rural Development and the Association for International Agriculture and Extension Education.
Brandon Boughen, president and founder of SOIA, recently attended a conference in Costa Rica and paid nearly $1,000 out of his own pocket.
“In international development, it’s really all about networking and with both of these conferences you’re able to network with people from all over the world,” Boughen said.
SOIA will also be visiting agriculture classes to raise awareness of the organization.
“Right now, we’re very new. We’re in the crawling stages, and we’re trying to figure out how everything works,” Boughen said.
Boughen created SOIA in the fall of 2008, and the group was granted recognized status in November, according to Campus Life.
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