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Just throwing my 2 cents out there regarding the bed quota tradition at IU... Our chapter has expanded in size so much these past couple of years that we are now at about 200 members and I believe we are the largest sorority at IU. Of course, this means that many of us are going to be living out next year, myself included... about 50 of the 70 girls in my pledge class won't be living in the chapter house next year, nor will basically any of our seniors sans the ones on exec board.

I personally am a little bit frustrated because we are the only housed chapter on campus with such a high amount of live-outs; it kind of makes me feel like we're the "odd one out" while my friends in every other sorority get to live in as juniors. I know that other schools, particularly in the South, do differ in their traditions and thrive with larger chapters. But I really do like the close-knit bonds that are forged by being a smaller chapter and I think these bonds are something that most IU sororities take very seriously.

I don't know if this is going to inspire a trend and encourage other chapters to take bigger numbers, but I know for a fact that many girls in my chapter are hoping our quota is going to be set lower within the next several years so we can return to a "normal" chapter size for IU.

It doesn't look like things are going to be changing anytime soon. Many people are proud of the fact that recruitment is so competitive and that nothing is guaranteed. I think that at this point the unhoused chapters are a temporary fix for a longterm problem, I don't forsee them really being able to thrive as much as they can if bed quota continues the way it does.