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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
could you round up the other sororities in the same situation as yours, and approach the greek life administrator and explain your concerns(which seem justified)? does the administrator have any experience on an npc campus?
it seems to me that if the best interest of the whole of greek life is considered, then there should be ceiling in place and only those chapters under ceiling should be allowed to recruit informally. the smaller chapters will never catch up otherwise.
you are such an eloquent writer-surely you can represent the group and persuade the greek life administrator to your point of view.stand firm!!
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We've had 3 Greek life advisers in as many years. One was promoted within the university, the second one left to take a job at a university closer to home, and now we have a new one. Oddly enough, all three have been NPC women (of 3 different organizations).
Chapters have expressed concerns about the "big getting bigger", but few if any know about what a ceiling is, what it does, why its there, how its calculated, etc. The reason my chapter knows that one has been used at Otterbein in the past is because the student life director (another NPC woman) mentioned it to us in an exercise we did with her during our pledge period. The first step would probably be education, simply because not all the chapters know about it.
I feel that at least one chapter would be on board with this. The others, I'm not sure how they'd vote. It sort of feels like it wouldn't be in their interest to have one, but at the same time, I know there are girls within the larger groups that don't *want* to have a 100 woman chapter (right now, I believe our largest group is around 80, give or take).
The thing is, it isn't like we have a hard time filling our houses. The largest houses 16 I think, but the chapter is also huge. My chapter house houses only 5, and it is filled. Others house between 7 and 10 girls. So a huge chapter is not needed to fill a huge house. Some chapters own their houses, others rent from the college, including mine. All have relatively equal housing.
And to add even more confusion to all this, it has been said that this spring class thing might be a once off. It's been suggested that we move to pledging our off quota girls (independent sophomores (have gone through rush and either not matched or signed independent), juniors and seniors) to fall quarter, and then have winter quarter remain formal recruitment (as it has been since the dawn of time). I've got no real qualms with this, except that if it were to happen next year, that will me 3 straight quarters of recruitment and pledging for my chapter!
I've got a rho chi debriefing later tonight, I may talk to the adviser about this. I just don't want to stick my foot where it doesn't belong because it isn't my position in the sorority to do so.