I rushed at a house that had a disaster - their house was sliding down a hill and had to be closed indefinitely. They held rush in a tent. The problem was not the tent but the fact they kept talking about the tent and the house sliding down the hill, so we all thought of them as the tent chapter. If you have a chance to reassure your actives, just tell them NOT to focus on whatever house disaster is at hand but just offhandedly remark that renovation of houses/lawns/whatever is part of keeping a sorority house a great chapter home. Then they talk about something else and they make sure that whatever the problem is, it does not interfere with the PNMs ability to concentrate on conversation.
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