Re: 4 eyed cretin eh?
 

How big is U of C? I thought it was like 10,000 students.

LOL! :D I never thought about that name and that song.
I never heard of working for different orgs. Thanks for leting me know.

When I pledged in '95, my sorority had 110 chapters. Every year we've added 2 or 3 new chapters. Guess how many chapters we have now? 110.

Maybe it isn't this way everywhere, but chapters closing is very hush-hush. There is no announcement or anything. All of a sudden one day you realize, "Hey, I haven't seen the name of chapter X in a while ..." No one knows why. You hear rumors (numbers, drugs), but if they close for numbers, my chapter would be shut down by now, and we're not the only one that small!

The bigger problem as I see it is that we are losing chapters at bigger or more prestigious campuses and opening them at tiny, non-selective schools. I don't want to offend people at those schools, because of course they can produce great members, but colonizing somewhere we'll you'll have 40 new members a year will make the sorority a lot stronger than colonizing somewhere where you'll get 10 new members a year.

Plus, it takes more energy to colonize than to keep a chapter open. You know how hard my chapter's advisor has been begging for an ELC to come out and help us? We finally got one, but the whole time, we were wondering where exactly the 8 ELCs were going! We only have one colony now after all. Our nationals won't close us but isn't supporting us much either.