Delta Phi Epsilon was supposed to recolonize at Penn State this year. With the edit button gone, it's hard to tell from LaneSig's thread what happened with that, but it sounds like they were allowed to take over total, and now maybe total went up, allowing existing groups to informally recruit in the winter? Does anyone know anything about Penn State and if the OP is hearing this correctly? Usually total is adjusted after formal recruitment, and then the colonizing group is told how many new members they can take (total plus a small cushion, usually), so there wouldn't be a change in total again after the colonization, leading to a need for informal winter recruitment so other chapters can rise to a new total. Just wondering....
