Ok so tonight at chapter our panhel rep brought up an issue that they want us to vote on. There is a chapter on our campus (I'll call them XYZ) struggling with membership and if they do not have 100 members by next December and 65 girls living in the house their charter is gone. Now our greek system here at Mizzou is HUGE but unfortunately it's also very competitive and cutthroat. This house is asking if anyone would mind if they brought in other members from different chapters to help with fall recruitment so they wouldn't have to double or triple rush girls. This isn't against ANY rules but they were just giving the 13 other houses a heads up, which I think is the classy thing to do. My chapter sees no problem with this AT ALL, we don't want them to lose their charter, b/c we know how much our sisterhood means to us so it must be similar for them and I can't imagine losing my chapter. Now the problem is though bigger houses out of the 14 that have like 200 or 240 members are OPPOSED to this and are saying that they're going to tell PNM's in the fall that some of the women rushing them at XYZ aren't members here. Who cares? They're still XYZ sisters! I don't understand why the chapters that aren't even COMPETING with this chapter are being so cold and hurtful about this. It really discourages me and makes me sad to be part of this greek system. Does anyone have any similar stories, or ideas about anything that can be done? I don't think anything can and that makes me very sad.
