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I think A LOT of you are missing Bolingbaker's point ,as well as blowing them out of proportion.

First of all you have to ignore exact numbers because they're relative to your campus (i.e. the 50 man, 100 man, 200 man argument). At some schools, a 60 man/woman house will do it (be more competitive then a 40 man house).

He also is not suggesting that prospective members choose their organizations based on size. Nor is he saying that your organization is weak because you arent the biggest.

He is saying that houses that have numbers are at an advantage and USUALLY are the strongest on their respective campuses. Look at your campus HONESTLY and see.

Do you find your organization involved (or seeking involvment) with the smallest groups on campus? The average sized? The larger ones?
(*note, I'm not asking you if you choose who you associate with based on size, I'm asking what the size is of the people that you tend to associate with).

Look at it from the other side. Do the larger, average, smaller sized units do much with you?

Ask your peers at other schools the same questions. I know that at Purdue, the larger sororities deal with/favor the larger fraternities. Same thing at IU.

I also think that this post is aimed more at those who want to IMPROVE their GLO locally...or possibly even nationally. Look at Pi Kappa Alpha. Dont you wonder why they put such an insane emphasis on rush nationally? It's because of Heller's finding, and as far as I can tell, its worked for them.

I have a feeling that a lot of these disgruntled replies are coming from people in smaller chapters who may have gotten their feelings hurt. This whole "rankings/size matters" topic isnt a personal attack on anyone. These are just observations.

Being small does not make an organization bad, it just means that they probably wont have the resources a bigger organization has.

Yes, there are advantages to having a smaller chapter...but like someone said earlier, if you havent been in a large chapter, dont knock it.

So please stop attacking Bolingbaker with all of these wierd, hypothetical situations...

thanks

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