This weekend fraternities and sororities at Eastern are going to get a crash course on how to get the most out of recruitment in the fall of 2005.

Eastern’s Interfraternity Council sent Stuart Ruwe, its vice president of recruitment and retention, to a recruitment boot camp in Indianapolis during the summer. Ruwe views this weekend’s experience as a refresher course and hopes to learn things he may have missed the first time.

“It will increase recruitment by roughly 25 percent overall,” Ruwe said. “It will also probably help get members motivated to go out and actively recruit members.”

Two to four delegates from every chapter in the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the National Panhellenic Council on campus will attend round tables all day Saturday to learn about new rules at each of the chapters’ national headquarters, to troubleshoot and to come up with recruitment goals for the coming year.

“It’s a great opportunity that’s been presented,” said Tara Coghlan, vice president of recruitment and retention for Panhellenic Council. “It helps the community come together.”

The boot camp is run by an organization called Campus Speak.

“(Campus Speak) has nine facilitators coming in from all over the state to help,” Coghlan said. “They’re highly trained individuals that have come up with the recruitment camp program.”

The members of Campus Speak have been working with organizations for many years and know the rules and regulations better than most people, she said.

This is the first year Eastern has hosted recruitment boot camp, and Coghlan said she is excited to see how well the program is received.

“It’s great to have all the fraternities and sororities come together on the same page,” Coghlan said.

Delegates who signed up early paid $30, and the cost was $50 for late registration.

Boot camp will last from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the University Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr University Union.