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Just a quick note: Because the problem has gotten so dire at Arkansas, the sororities on campus are very supportive of expansion and would support a new house or two. I don't think there is anyone who is not on board with this, unless it is the one, eternal Icky Iota house that struggles despite RFM (and suffers all of the problems discussed in this thread)RFM has helped them, but it has not put them on equal ground.
I agree that the large pledge class problem is fairly isolated around the country, but if you go back and look, it is expanding each year. Arkansas has been dealing with it for at least 5 years, then Alabama, then Ole Miss, etc.
Drolefille, you are right, it is a systemic problem partly. But weren't crosscuts, and bidless girls also systemic on campuses prior to RFM?
I am not advocating the end of RFM, far from it. I am simply saying that RFM needs to be tweaked to find some answers for these large quotas. Or maybe National Pan needs to provide some help to groups trying to get on those campuses begging for expansion. IMO, the general attitude that "RFM is working for weaker houses" is kind of reverse discrimination and causing ripple effects across the country. Some campuses are more apparent, but I think others will begin to have issues.
The houses filling these huge quotas, despite being able to brag about their recruitment success, don't want NM groups this large. It causes all sorts of the same problems for a stronog chapter (drop outs, uninvolved, lost in the crowd) that bid lists filled with girls who get their 3rd choice cause for weaker houses.
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