[FuzzieAlum]

I agree if everyone is COBing ceiling is too high. But those one or two smaller chapters don't have the power to change it. Of course the bigger groups don't want to shrink, so they will vote against lowering ceiling. I just wonder what a smaller group can do in a situation like that.

I know there are a lot of wonderful rushees who don't want to do formal rush. But the best of them still join the larger orgs. The struggling groups end up "convincing" girls to join - girls who are anti-Greek but like this "different" group. It ends up getting more and more different until you have girls insisting on talking about porn, religion and politics at formal rush parties to "make a point" about how stupid the system is. (No, I'm not joking.) Obviously, that's not where a group wants to end up. A group can be different, but when you start attacking the system you are a part of, well, that attracts a limited number of people.

In an environment like that, what can the small group do? It's hard to sell the "leadership" roles of a smaller chapter if even the big chapters have half the sisters holding offices. COB won't work for you. Is the only option to give up your charter and say, sorry, we're out of here?