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Originally Posted by 33girl
But then you get a chicken and egg situation. When rushees are saying "I really liked ABC but I want to live in a house"- how can they get stronger with that mindset? And as discussed before, if you market yourself as not having a house as being a positive, then you get the kind of members who might not want to do other things affiliated with IU Greek life either.
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I think the unfortunate reality right now is that PNMs do have that mindset and are ranking unhoused groups last for the most part, and that the unhoused groups are left to choose from the PNMs who have been funneled down after the house groups have taken their picks. The fortunate part is that there are so many PNMs that the unhoused groups are still left with a large pool of worthy women to choose from. It is my understanding that we are all maintaining healthy sized chapters of quality members, it's just the stigma of being an unhoused group that we have to deal with. As far as marketing being unhoused as a positive, I'm betting that the number of women choosing unhoused groups for the fact that they are unhoused is minuscule at best. I think it is more of a case of a PNM wanting ABC badly enough that they are willing to overlook the lack of housing, rather than wanting ABC because it is unhoused.