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I think there will always be a sense of exclusion, someone has to be the "other" at a lot of schools. It can be really tough to break through that. Schools who really want success and growth find a way to nip the negativity. Many still allow the rumor mills that get repeated here from time to time. I think RFM helps a lot but if it's a school where you're better off dead than choosing "that chapter" then the battle can really be tough. I can think of a few schools where they seem to have gone beyond that. Arkansas is one. Even the smaller chapters are still huge and I think they are doing a great job of trying to find a way to reach parity. I think the best solution is just to keep adding chapters. But hey, what do I know?
I went to school pre-RFM and to a school with 15 chapters. There were 4 who were on the outside. That is ridiculous. And btw, they have totally solved it there, but RFM took several years to really work its magic. The girls went kicking and screaming into the future.
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