[KappaKittyCat]

Thank you for making that point. A few of the other sorority women on my campus could do well to read it. We were down to four women first term of last year. [1300 person liberal arts school; 10% Greek participation; 5 IFC (housed), 3 NPC (unhoused), 2 "Professional" groups (unhoused); NPC chapter total is 50, the other two are at 39 and 45; lots of anti-Greek sentiment on campus.] For deferred Recruitment second term, the other chapters held it back... but just a little. There was still lots and lots of dirty rushing... i.e. "suicide us and we'll give you a COB bid." The sad thing is that it worked. We did have a good Recruitment (for us, the best we'd had in years, but nowhere as good as the others), and if we have another one this year we should be out of the red. However, I don't think that any of them would care if we folded. I doubt that any of them would notice. The fraternities on campus, even the small ones who are struggling themselves, only care to hang out with the other two groups. The two "professional" groups do a lot of trash-talking to freshmen about our system... i.e. "Oh, well, we're not a *social* sorority..." even though we've got better grades and more philanthropic involvement than they do. They schedule their recruitment events at the exact same time as all of our Recruitment parties and go out of their way to discourage women from being involved in both their organization and an NPC or IFC group. As if our NPC/IFC groups' trying to kill each other weren't enough... Grr... sorry, I'm just a little bitter here.