[33girl]

I can understand lowering total (total often isn't looked at enough and some campi are having to use totals from 10-15 years ago), but honestly, I think violetpretty is right - this didn't have to do w/ "quality over quantity", it has to do with the fact that the chapters are having a problem making total because interest is down. I don't think the decrease is a bad thing, because if it's been years of the majority of groups not making total and getting yelled at by their nationals for not doing so - they need to have a break. Keeping total too high for a campus results in dirty rush and lots of nasty competition among the different groups because everyone's under pressure.

Now if they wanted to lower it from 100 to say 30, I'd say they are wanting to go "quality over quantity" and they'll probably end up adding a couple new chapters - so the same amount of women will still be involved. Different campuses look at it differently and it's silly to say, well my campus has 3 sororities at 100 each, so every campus should do that.

I think you can have sisterhood in every size chapter, it's just a different kind of sisterhood. Some women can't fathom not knowing all their chapter sisters, and to some that concept is stifling.