[bolingbaker]

I honestly mean no disrespect. I realize that I'm sticking my nose in where it's not welcome, and I expect to be told so. Still...It's fascinating to read this thread and contemplate the oceanic gulf between the ways men and women think. You're having serious discussions about holding back and dampening the success of some sorority chapters because other sorority chapters are not as successful. If someone told the leading fraternities at a public university that they had to cap their membership because some other fraternities were offering nothing of value to potential members and could attract no new pledges, there'd be an avalanche of lawsuits filed in Federal court. Guys assume that their chapters are successful because they are aggressive and accomplished and offer value to the members. They assume the fraternities that cannot attract members fail because they have nothing to offer that rushees want. The idea that men who are rejected for membership in a successful group will turn around and join one that is not, simply because it has Greek letters, is completely foreign to the way guys think.
I have never seen a decent-sized sorority system that didn't have at least one struggling chapter. The theory I suppose is that, until some more women join the unsuccessful group, the system will not admit another sorority that might bring needed enthusiasm and value to the campus. Instead of holding the successful ones back, why not let them grow and prosper as they will, creating an atmosphere of great enthuiasm, of dynamic and exciting chapters that will attract greater numbers of members campus-wide. Let the ones that offer no real incentive to join fall away, and let new ones come on and prosper.
Obviously, the system that sororities operate works well for them, and we men surely have our problems. But my goodness!, we certainly see our world through different eyes.