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I agree wholeheartedly with what FuzzieAlum has to say, as well as everyone else. I'd be perfectly happy if my chapter didn't make total (and yes, that's happened to my chapter, too- it wasn't the end of the world), so long as we got a pledge class full of the wonderful ladies we loved and saw as great members of the chapter.
But... in the defense of "obsessing" over total, sometimes a chapter has to obsess because: a) nationals might threaten to suspend or remove the chapter for not keeping up with other houses (happens every year to one chapter on my campus, and they're a great chapter, just a little weak during recruitment which is OK), or b) Panhellenic on the campus strongly pushes hitting total for one reason or another. I know that Panhellenic on UCR's campus is always pushing for total because if every chapter is at or very close to total, the university might actually see Greek life as something important and worthwhile. It's also stressed by PH because if every chapter is at or close to total, we can increase total and/or look into expansion, which will make Greek life appear more worthwhile to the university.
Not that I'm defending people or chapter's who constantly obsess over total- we have one of those on campus and it can get annoying- but I can understand why they do it sometimes.
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