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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
Ultimately, it's going to help your smaller chapter, your chapter will probably be in a similar position, and it's not necessarily going to hurt your largest chapter. They're graduating three, but how many a potential transfers/inactives/etc. I'm pretty sure with that GLO they can have "senior status" or "early alum" or at least that's what they did on my campus. They shouldn't encourage members to do that, but I don't think being at total will hurt them.
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I don't think being at total will hurt them, either. It would, however, not be great for them to only be able to gain 3 new members total for Fall 09 and Spring 10.
And I'm not saying this is a reason to not lower total, but... I think that if it was lowered, it might create some hostility from the larger chapter. I'm not saying that they're "big and mean" or anything, but if the other two sororities vote to lower total, I can see them thinking that we want to limit their recruiting so that the smaller chapters can gain more members and play some catch up. If the chapters were always up and down in terms of who was on top in the numbers game, then it might not be that big of a problem. But they've always tried to increase total (why, I'm not really sure) and another chapter has always tried to lower it. We've basically been stuck in the middle because our numbers were so low that we basically "didn't care".
Again arises the problem of trying to make everyone think "go Greek" instead of "join ABC" and "join XYZ"