[ADPi Conniebama]

I heard a story (ok go with me here I do have a point) about an ADPi chapter (I am not going to say which one) that had 18 sisters when total was ~150. So, these 18 girls picked themselves up by their "bootstraps" and with fantastic sisterhood, wonderful recruiting (cool recruitment dvd) MASS PR for a year or so and new release figures . . . THEY ARE NOW a chapter with 2 years of quota behind them and ~88 sisters in the chapter. I have seen this DVD and these girls were cute - I mean they didn't look like left overs from the greek system so their problem, apparently, was PR and allot of years without local leadership.

Now, I am sure that these "new" release figures from National Panhellenic are going to help the situation greatly. And, allot of otherwise great "small" chapters will move into the "STRONG chapter" catagory and then the whole greek system will succeed and grow.

I find it hard to "feel bad" for the pnm who won't take a "growing" chapter because she heard they weren't the best (unless that specific sorority has poor communication skills or can't smile at a party or really does make a horrible impression during recruitment) However I, too, come from a small greek university (4 panhellenic sororities.) I think it would be easier to pick from 4 because even the 4th best is still pretty good. But, I don't know how to think about the worst on a 20 sorority campus.

So, my point is if the pnm gets released by her 1st 2nd & 3rd choice on a campus with 20 sororities, I still don't feel bad for them because I mean how bad can her 8th choice be ( I mean 20 for goodness sake) and if she goes BIDDLESS she has only herself to blame - that is like your parent telling you you can live in my house but you cant smoke and then you moving out and telling your friends that your parent kicked you out - that is rediculous.

woops got alittle floopy there I hope it made some sense.