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Ah ok, 20 sounds like a reasonable number. I was a member of a zeta
of 13 actives for 3 weeks (until rush), and it was ALOT of work! We were
surprised at the beginning of the year to find out so many brothers had
transferred or dropped out of school all together. All 13 were juniors and
seniors, since at the time frosh weren't allowed to rush, and soph.s
accepted bids about 3 weeks into the fall semester.
MONEY seemed to make a difference for us though. Our chapter had a
large unpaid debt to HQ (not to mention another to the college) that
had been hanging around for about 5 years. My soph. year, when I joined,
we worked hard and paid it off....so HQ was very happy with us!!
It was the next year we reached our "darkest day." To the 13 we added
only 3 in (the last ever) fall soph. rush. In the spring we had the first spring
rush for 2nd-semester frosh and above (policy change that year). On
bid day we got 0. So it looked like we'd come back to begin my senior
year with 7-8 actives (assuming NO transfers/dropouts), with no rush
until beginning of the spring semester.
The anti-greek editor of the college newspaper (he wanted to be a LXA, but
we never gave him a bid...even a small chapter has to have a lower limit!)
contacted HQ and wanted to know if they were going to close our chapter.
The response was that the chapter was on the "improving greatly" list
(because of the payoff of debt, I'm sure)...so the answer was NO.
Fortunately we got 10 AM's a few days later, and things went up from
there....to GHA award 5 years later with over 60 actives.
So I guess each situation has to be evaluated individually....even a chapter
of 13 has the potential to do great things, given a little time.
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