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Originally Posted by 33girl
Yes, you do have that option. USE IT. Pledging anything with an ovary will only make your situation worse. If you are being forced to do so by your national org, tell them "We don't want to give Jessie a bid because her grades are awful and she has a bad repuation on campus." Be specific in your reasons. "She doesn't fit" or "she's not DZ material" is not going to cut it.
Don't bid girls you don't want to call sisters. PERIOD. If there's another sorority on campus doing OK, it's not that women don't want Greek life. It's just that they don't want the Greek life your group is offering.
Better to have 15 involved, committed, wonderful girls than 40 girls and half of them don't show up or do nothing but create drama.
Are you recruiting girls outside of formal rush? If not, you need to start doing so.
Also: stop thinking of the other sorority as your "rival." They're your Panhellenic sisters. Pitting yourselves against them (and vice versa) will not help you, and will not help the interest in Greek life in general.
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Amen! Honestly, you should look at what the other group is doing to maintain members. Are they providing better programming? Is it just the issue of the house? If the whole problem is really a rivalry issue, then defining what DZ offers women that is different but equally valuable to members as compared to the other group is important. You have to do a lot of introspection, though. And above all else, having no standards for membership will not help your situation. Members need to be invested in the women they bring into the chapter. If any one can make it in regardless of quality, they won't be invested, and you'll continue to see these problems.