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Originally Posted by violetpretty
Is W&L hoping to lower chapter size by adding ADPi?
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Yes.
They first began the stop-and-go process of adding a sixth sorority my senior year (spring 2005). Ultimately that failed because of inadequate preparations on Panhel's part to get the money cleared for a sixth sorority house. In response Panhel submitted a proposal as part of the W&L strategic plan to add a sixth house and bring the size down. The W&L houses were designed with a total of 70 in mind. At this point some of the larger houses cannot even fit all their members into their chapter meeting rooms. 70 is seen as a good number for W&L in terms of the house size and also in terms of the fact that W&L Panhel would like sororities to be a small, "personalized" experience just like W&L in general.
The strategic proposal document used to be on the W&L website, but I can't find it anymore after the Greek Life site redesign a month or two back. I'll keep looking for it. In it the writers discussed how the sixth group would bring the size down, but that based on the exponential growth of Greek life at W&L (a larger and larger percentage of women keep pledging), there would probably even need to be a seventh group to really get the size down to 70. However there isn't a spot for a seventh house on sorority row, which would lead to a whole other set of problems/questions. Some of the options were discussed in that document. I'll keep looking for it.
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