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Originally posted by Erik P Conard
cranky old fart, crusty old bastard--
I do not care what you call me,
BUT
let's continue to work on our clubs so you can become
CRANKY OLD FARTS....
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i love this!!!!
ok, here is my take. first of all, i hate quota. i came from the small house, but i would rather have 20 sisters who give 100%, instead of 80- 20 who give 100% and 60 who barely give 50%!!! i know that several chapters have 150+ members and i can't even imagine that (not on my campus, but elsewhere)!!! truthfully, in most cases, on a campus with glos that own their own houses, i feel that expansion is not welcome bc the current groups will have to fight harder to pay for members to fill their house. pure and simple. you have room for 100 girls to sleep, then you need 100 girls to pay to sleep there. if you have more competition, you are going to have to fight harder to get enough people to fill the beds. empty beds= loss of money.
then with the "quota" system, the national office has this "goal" that you must meet every time. if you don't you get some sort of talk about how you didn't do it again. you start to feel like crap bc it doesn't matter that you just doubled the size of your group, but you didn't meet quota. the focus shifts from sisterhood and bonding to a constant fight to rush, cob, etc. the next thing you know, it is not fun to be in a sorority any more!
nationally speaking, there are groups with many more chapters than others in both ifc and npc. should the larger groups like teke and chi-o stop expanding bc there are groups that don't have nearly as many chapters? let's face it, more chapters= more members= more money. i am sure that when the npc sends out info on groups looking to affiliate, there are some glos who just say, we don't have the resources to even get started on this campus. i bet the same goes with ifc, too. i really don't feel like this is a purely local issue of large v. small. i think it is a more global issue.
so what do we do? how can we take care of each other not only on our individual campi, but at the npc and ifc level?