That's terrible to hear. Greek Life is alive and well here at Washington University. My chapter had thirteen pledges two years ago, seventeen last year, and we're looking towards twenty-one this year, hopefully. As a piece of advice for campuses whose Rush enrollment is dropping, I'd assume it's an issue of a lack of cohesion among the Greeks. If you've got an IFC and a PanHel, then you should coordinate a dynamic Greek Week, with all of the Greeks on campus banding together to show the incoming class that fraternities and sororities are more than just drinking clubs. Plan events, like a Greek Forum -- an event where each organization gets a table, and they staff it with members and decorate it with house memorabilia. It's widely advertised -- ESPECIALLY in freshman dorms -- and the turnout is usually awesome. IFC/PanHel need to offer some sort of incentive, though, like free pizza or whatnot. Sorry if that didn't help, but I'd love to see Greek Life flourish everywhere.
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Joshua
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~jlgoldwa
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