[Firehouse]

than before. In any case, there's no reason why any particular group can't pledge as many as they want. Often, it's just a matter of lack of vision or ambition. If your top competitor has only 80, then you may quit at 80 too, unless there is a leader in your chapter with the drive and ambition to create a fraternity that will dominate. If one chapter steps forward and becomes a substantially stronger fraternity than the others, then the others will rise to that standard just to compete.
Let's pretend that there are ten fraternities with 500 total members, on a campus with 10,000 strudents. OK, lets eliminate 6,000 of those students who are women. Take away the 500 Greek men and that leaves a total of 3,500 men on campus. Let's eliminate 2,000 of them for no particular reason; maybe we don't like them, they don't like us, they're seniors, they're not 'fraternity types'. That leaves 1,500 men to be divided among 10 fraternities, which already average 50 men each. That's an average of 150 rushees EXCLUSIVELY for each individual fraternity!!!
If I want to create a great chapter, I can make a living off those numbers.