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Originally Posted by IUGreekGirl
And honestly-- aren't the women who would join a chapter even if it didn't have a house the kind of women IU wants in the Greek Community?? Women who are joining because they want real sisterhood and not because sisterhood happens to come with a pretty house to live in?
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I don't think you can criticize women for wanting something that is a BIG part of the Greek experience at a school. It's not about a "pretty house" - it's about the fact that living with your sisters is seen as vital, in the same way that weekly meetings are seen as vital. As barnard1897 said, the size and/or newness of the physical structures does not correlate to their popularity with rushees or on campus.
When you market yourself as "outside the norm" too much, your pool of interested members eventually dries up. You either content yourself with being smaller and recruiting members in a different fashion, or you try to compete with the "normal" groups and flop.
FWIW, I advocated the same thing you're saying years ago...but years of reading about the IU sorority system on GC have changed my tune.