[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by dnall

The OP explained his situation. He's coming from an NIC org, not NPHC or multicultural. His chapter is at 23 +12 pledges, but in moderate hazing so not going to finish 12. Their peer chapters (2 of them) are in the 50-60 range. And, he's concerned with the pitfalls of being in a very small chapter.

14 events is a couple less than one event of some kind every other week while school is in session. I didn't give an amount for what the cost would be because I don't know the rules, factors, or costs on the ground where he is. All I said is there's a definable cost for that, and it will be hard to reach with fewer members than more.

Whoever tried to give that math lesson a minute ago, thanks so much. I've never seen a 100man chapter charge 500/yr, and not many schools with small chapters will you find charging high dues. It tends to be the inverse of what you need. The smallest chapters on campus tend to charge less in order to hold members and attract recruits. I said tends! I know there's exceptions to the rules, but that TENDS to be the case.

Look, I don't know what happened with this chapter. I don't know if they were better in the past, went through a membership review recently, and now the remaining core is super committed. I sounds like they did a good job in rush if they had a guy not recognizing their relative size versus the others. It sounds like they have potential, but right now they're going to be short on funds. They really need to get numbers up so there's a little more latitude in the budget. Otherwise they'll always be cutting corners, which is more risky.

There's nothing wrong with big chapters or small chapters. You can have a good greek experience anywhere. Small chapters will always struggle. That's facts of life. You only have so much money and manpower to get anything done and that will always define you unless you can grow a lot. Really big chapters have a lot of money, but you're not going to be as tight with 100 people as you are with 40 and there will be a lot less leadership opportunities to go around. There's pros and cons on either extreme, and the middle has some pros and some cons from both extremes. Every place has to find its balance. If the other chapters on your campus are 50-60 guys and yours is 23, then you're not reaching your potential and you probably have some internal stuff to deal with.

NOOOOOOOOO!

You. Are. Wrong.

Please stop.

ETA: if there are exceptions to the rules (which you've made up), then stop telling this kid "You will be broke," and, "You need to grow because chapters with less than 30 members can't compete with the larger chapters," when you don't know if that's actually true.