Delta Tau Delta fraternity is scheduled to return to K-State as a new colony this fall.
Members from the national organization had an informational booth in Bosco Student Plaza on Monday in the hopes of meeting prospective members.
Brandon Cutler, assistant director of Greek Affairs, said the fraternity had to leave K-State about two years ago.
Cutler has been facilitating the needs of the Delta Tau Delta colony to help them recruit members. He said they will have to be on campus at least two full terms before they can attain full-chapter status on campus, but he is confident they will meet the expectations of the greek community.
“Kansas State has historically been one of our strongest chapters,” said Mike Slaughter, Delta Tau Delta national chapter leadership consultant. “We were really not too pleased to lose it several years back, but then again we don’t like groups that don’t fulfill our expectations to kind of hang around, and when they underperform we take rapid action pretty quickly.”
Slaughter said this is his ninth expansion in starting up a new chapter of the organization and the interest in joining has been fair. He also said Delta Tau Delta has seen extreme support from its alumni.
“Right now, within the first two days, we have 45 interviews set up,” Slaughter said. “The response has been absolutely overwhelming. We’re just really excited to be back.”
However an interview does not necessarily guarantee an invitation to join, Slaughter said. “We’re really looking for the best of the best,” Slaughter said. “We’re looking for guys who really want to leave a legacy on campus, start something new, be a part of something bigger.”
Chris Harvey, sophomore in hotel and restaurant management and first pledge for Delta Tau Delta, said he decided to join the fraternity because his dad was a member at Baker University.
“When I heard they were trying to get something restarted at K-State, I sent out hundreds of e-mails trying to find out who I needed to talk to and what I needed to do to get involved in Delta Tau Delta,” he said. “I kid with my friends that I was the Delta Tau Delta this summer.”
The organization is trying to recruit members by several various ways, including a contest between the different sororities on campus. The sororities were asked to supply names of possible recruits to Delta Tau Delta. For every name a sorority supplies, it receives a point. Sororities also receive multiple points for every man who joins and for wearing Delta Tau Delta buttons or T-shirts.
“The sorority that is most instrumental in helping us reassert our colony on campus, we are going to donate money to their philanthropy,” Slaughter said.
