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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
In an unhoused environment, it's less about money but there are still burdens associated with too many members, not just too few. Meeting in a classroom is one thing, but if you have to rent a lecture hall to meet that would be less than pleasant.
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Coming from a smaller campus with a small percentage of students who are Greek, this is the problem I see the chapters running into more so than any other. There are 3 sororities, and 3 meeting rooms in the student union building, available for any student organization to reserve, that are used for chapter meetings and recruitment events.
Total is set at 40. Even when I was my chapter's recruitment advisor a year ago and there were 30 girls, those rooms were tight (with tables set up in a square/rectangle). When the chapters reserve those rooms, they do so for an entire semester, and while each chapter basically had their "designated room" year after year, it has come to a point where every sorority is fighting for the largest room. And if you don't get it, you're stuck being squished for 10+ meetings, until there's a mad dash to Student Activities the following semester.
And recruitment events.. I'm not sure if they've moved them anywhere else, but for those of you who read my recruitment story thread in the past couple days, you know that 84 PNMs showed up for recruitment.. A new record in at least the last 10 years. So you have 30-40 sisters with 28 PNMs, and you can imagine what that's like in a room that is just comfortable enough to have the 30-40 sisters standing in it.
I think that total is ok where it's at for now, but I'll be very curious to see what's going to happen as all of the chapters continue to grow.