RUSH 2010

“If I Could Change the World” Rush

• JAN 27 Meet & Greet with Members
  7-8pm @ C. Chavez Student Center T-160
• JAN 28 Volunteer at Glide Soup Kitchen
  2:30pm meet @ Malcolm X Plaza (ends at 6pm)
• JAN 29 Information Night: learn more about us
  7-8pm @ C. Chavez Student Center T-160
• JAN 30 Volunteer for Ocean Ave Beautification
  9am meet @ Malcolm X Plaza (ends at Noon)
• JAN 31 Volunteer at Kindness Kitchen
  10am meet @ Malcolm X Plaza (ends at 2pm)
• FEB 3 Information Night 7-8pm @ C. Chavez Student Center
• FEB 11 FREE! Play Pool at Rac & Cue @ C. Chavez Student Center

RUSH FAQs

Contact:

Veejay Atilano & Kristina Hew
Rushmasters

rushmaster@apomz.org

About Us

What is Alpha Phi Omega?
Alpha Phi Omega is a national, co-ed community service fraternity. Our most basic, yet most demanding responsibility is providing volunteer service to non-profit agencies like the SF Food Bank, Glide Memorial Church, Ronald McDonald House, American Cancer Society, Habitat For Humanity, Academy of Friends, Friends of the Urban Forest, and many more.

National
We were founded in 1925 in Easton, PA, and have since then established chapters at colleges throughout the nation, and even in other countries, including Canada, Australia, and the Philippines.

Co-ed (& Diverse)
We have an open membership policy, and as a result we have a diverse organization. As long as you are a student here at SF State, we will gladly welcome you regardless of major, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, etc.

Service
We are a Service fraternity, rather than a social fraternity, which is more like what you see in the movies. Our main purpose is to do community service, here on campus, throughout our community, and we also do community service projects that have effects reaching nation wide and beyond. Of course we also help out ourselves to keep our chapter going strong so we can continue doing the good work that we do.

Pledging Experience

Your journey will begin with a simple and dignified ceremony that marks the beginning of your pledging process.

The pledging process will introduce you to our fraternity, teach you about our history, and help you to grow in Leadership, Friendship, and Service before you decide you wish to become a full member of Alpha Phi Omega.

If you need help at any point during your pledging process, anyone of us will gladly help you, but you will also be given one or more Big Sibs that will be guiding you along the way.

The requirements that we ask of you fall under three categories, which are the cardinal principles of our fraternity. These categories are Leadership, Friendship, and Service.

Leadership

One of our goals as a fraternity is to develop leadership in our members. Leadership skills that will help develop you as a person, that you can use to help maintain and strengthen our fraternity as its future leaders, and that you can use to help serve others.

During the pledging process we will ask you to:

• Attend pledge meetings where you will learn the basics of how we run, and learn about our history, as well as make decisions as a pledgeclass.
• Attend meetings so you can witness how our organization functions, become informed of what is going on with the fraternity and about what events are coming up, and so you can participate along side us.
• Help coordinate one of our events.
• Come together as a pledgeclass and set up and execute a service project as well as a fundraiser.

We will also provide you with other opportunities to develop your leadership skills… all you have to do is reach out and take them!

Friendship

One of the great benefits to joining any fraternity are the friends you meet and the bonds that form. You will meet new people and gain new friends through the pledging process. It feels great helping other through service, but it feels even better to do so along side a group of people who feel the same way and enjoy it as much as you do.

As a way to help promote this ideal, we ask that you:

• Attend several of our non-service related events… to just have fun!
• Get to know the members of your pledgeclass, who are sharing the pledging experience with you, as well as several members of the fraternity through interviews.
• Get to meet and interact with members from other chapters to introduce you to Alpha Phi Omega beyond San Francisco State, by attending an inter-chapter event.

Service

Of course we can’t forget about service. Is is the core purpose of our fraternity. To encourage our members to help other in a variety of ways, we organize our service projects into four different categories:

• Service to the chapter
• Service to the campus
• Service to the community
• Service to the country

You will be asked to participate in service projects in each of these areas. We will also ask of you, as well as all of our own members, to commit some time to a fundraiser so we can continue to do the good work that we do.

One Final Step!

Your pledging process will end as it began. You will participate in one final ceremony that will establish your commitment to Leadership, Friendship, and Service and allow us to welcome you as a full member of Alpha Phi Omega.