[KappaKittyCat]

Just a warning for you... NPC might say no.

We tried it last year. Total was at 65 and was lowered to 50 in 2000 and we tried to lower it to 40. Nobody's been over 45 in years. Our chapter needs it so that a certain other chapters can't play the Suicide/COB dirty rush game. Shockingly enough, another chapter that's at 42 wanted it lowered because they were sick of COBing every term. They actually didn't want to get new members. The chapter that opposed it called their NPC delegate and raised a stink. NPC contacted our Greek advisor and forbade lowering campus total. They said that wasn't the answer.

Well, my question was, what is?

Fortunately we made our case to our NPC delegate at our Convention and she's arranging for NPC to engage in some nation-building this fall; they're sending us a consulting team. I hope that that'll help us get participation up so that we don't need to lower total.

So my advice to you is to get your NPC delegate on your side before you really start fighting to change total. Have the other chapters in your "voting block" do the same. That'll assure you the best chance of success.