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Comment on house sizes
Yep - filling the house was always somewhat of an issue for us.... University of Texas has quite large houses - ours slept around 65 or 70 if I remember correctly. Most officers were required to live in the house, and so were sophomores. The problem was, a lot of sophomores were sick of the dorm-like living atmosphere and wanted to live in apartments rather than move into the house! Don't get me wrong, our house and the others at UT are beautiful. They're continually updated and remodeled, and much nicer than other campus's sorority houses that I've been in. But when you continually have to fill a house with around 70 girls, it can be tough. But, like AnchoraAlumna said, it becomes a financial burden if there is even one space empty in a house that costs a lot of money to run and maintain...
One thing I noticed with some of the other sororities at UT that didn't house as many girls as DG (more like 40-50 rather than 60-70), was that they only allowed officers or seniors to live in the house, so it became a "priviledge" to live there. This seemed to work better than forcing sophomores who didn't feel they had a choice in the matter. However, things could have drastically changed since I've graduated as campus quota has gone up in recent years......
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