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Originally posted by CarolinaDG
Last year during derby days, I begged the guys to do it based on percentage. At that point, we were down to about 60 members, and competing with chapters with almost 200. We ended up tying for 4th place with ADPi, one of the largest chapters on campus, and beating KD, also one of the largest chapters on campus. This never would have happened if they hadn't done it based on percentage. It causes a little more stress for them, though, so sometimes they don't want to mess with it. In my case, I had just broken up with one of the brothers, so I was still friends with a lot of them, and they knew how much I was busting my butt to be competitive. They wanted to see us do well since they knew how much work we put into it. Still, it's always good to ask them to do it based on percentage.
As far as size in rush rooms... there are ways to trick the rushees. Sure, I noticed that tri-delt was by far the biggest, but they were in this huge room that made them look smaller than they actually were, and DZ was in a room that made them look bigger than they were. It's always best to get a room that actually fits the size of your chapter.
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If they aren't doing that based on percentage they are 1) LAZY and 2) maybe not worth supporting. If they aren't going to support you-why support them? It is so much better to have 100% of 50 girls show up than 50% of 100. Yes it is the same amount of girls-but not the same amount of support. If they can't do the long division and then move the decimal, I'd be happy to show them!
Second-it is us that is making this a size matters thing. It doesn't matter outside of our own world. Enron was huge-not the best company come to find out. Bigger=better doesn't mean squat when you leave the greek community and go into the real world. My highschool is bigger than yours-are we better-probably not. I do agree there are advantages to larger systems. You have many more hands to do the work. That is great. If you are too small it gets difficult for everyone to do everything all the time-sure. But thet's not forget that everything is realtive. A Tri-Delta chapter of 50 may be small at one school,but it may be huge at another college.
Also-ladies feel me on this. Why do we see so much more diversity in men's groups? Why can a campus have a fraternity of 50 and another fraternity of 20 and they are totally OK with that? I mean, I know when I was in school, the biggest sorority had like 150 members and the biggest fraternity had 80. But the sorority with 80 members was considered struggling. The fraternity with 30 guys wasn't considered struggling. If the sorority with 150 members had a social with the guys in the 80 member house-that is still weird. So telling me that people won't have socials with you or whatever if you are smaller is silly. The men's groups tend to be smaller in general because there is always more of them. I forgot what my point was. I have to take my medication now....
