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Originally posted by Pi Kapp 142
I have news for you all........Just about any school of decent size is a commuter school!! UCLA, which has a great Greek system does nothave that many people living on campus or even near it. I do not like the commuter school excuse that people use to explain away why the Greek system is failing, or at least not growing, at their school. The way to get more invovlement at a school and growth among chapter is to work together. If groups backstab each other and can not trust each other enough to get things like Greek Week together, then everyone will see that and will not want to join. College is what you make of it and so is your chapter. Hopefully other SFSU Greeks will see this. PM me and we will talk.

I shoulda been more straight-forward with my post. I understand what you're saying about commuter campuses, but to me a commuter campus is absolute commuter. We do not have dorms, or student apartments nearby. Eastern Michigan U is considered partly commuter, and ALOT of students do commute there, but they have the option of living on/near campus, and they have houses.

At UMD, it is hard to rush, especially now. Our "hang out" building is closed for remodeling for 2 years. The new building does not want anyone to hang out in there. Instead they want people to hang out in the Rec on the other side of campus, where NO ONE is gona walk to! Only one org can have a booth set up for a bake sale, and one org can have a booth set up for whatever. When COB time comes around, it really sucks. Last winter we had a Phi class of 2, and the Phi Sigs had a pledge class of 1, while DphiE had a full pledge class because they got the booth first. Not sayin that they are bad or that's the only reason why people joined, but students are gona go with what they see first. We set up flyers, signs, talked to girls, whatever. No one reads the flyers.

What I just explained is exactly what I hate about goin to a commuter campus. It really sucks for us.