[33girl]

Having heard firsthand stories of colonies and recolonizations that started at a disadvantage...if you see things going downhill early on, it's absolutely, positively not worth it to stick around. Yes, 85 women have had a bad experience, and my heart goes out to them, but better 85 women now than 400 women 7 years from now, who are closing their chapter because they never were able to live up to their nationals' expectations and never had a sorority experience that wasn't full of pressure. All colonies have some "weeding out" but to lose almost half the members as this colony did is not typical.

Not only that...ZTA has many many other chapters to think of. Should they divert all their resources to try and get this chapter off the ground, or should they help the chapters that have been around for decades and need help just as much? I would say the latter.

As Jhawk alum said, at this school the house is a big part of it and you need to have one, period. All other sororities wanting to go to KU can look at this and consider it a lesson learned.