[ADPiShannan]

Ill see if I can answer it the best I can. Ive been alum since May 03 so I am not sure of all the status right this second. Based on Fall 02 and previous years, I would say 2 chapters have always done exceptionally well. The other 3 were doing ok. Then Nationals came in and implemented a HUGE change with one of the 3 chapters, they held their own cobing, they had fliers all over, they interviewed people, they did it all. From that they were able to get their numbers WAY up, I mean almost to where they were either at 65 girls or close to it. They have pretty much held strong. I think if what Im told now is correct, they are at 60 or so. One of the other 3 chapters also had a semester where they stuck with it and did their all and got their numbers way up as well. I think they are at about 55 now. Now these numbers are great as both were low numbers before and they have since kept getting better and stronger, and keeping their numbers high. Now the last chapter as I stated before was about at 15. They were struggling while all the others were soaring.

They contacted their Nationals in hopes of doing the same thing the other chapter did. They held their own CORing, which other chapters came to and supported. They asked us to wear buttons, they canvased the whole campus. All of the Greek system was behind them. We had meetings with them, task force meetings, where we sat down and shared ideas, where we told them how we ran recruitment, where we gave them all the pointers we could. We even asked them over and did a mock recruitment with them to show them how we did ours. I mean aside from going to their chapter and pretending to be in it to help them, we did everything. Not just us, but several other chapters as well. It was just they werent seeing the results they had hoped for. They did get 15-20 new members, which was great. Its just after that Im not so sure they were getting 15-20 members each recruitment then. If I am correct and this is just from fall 02, Im not sure about fall 03, they were about at 35 members.

Now recruitment is recruitment, we are all out to get girls, but noone talks bad about the other sororities. Its pretty much a rule thats followed in all chapters on our campus to not be disrespectful and just focus on the positives. If a girl comes to our chapter and is like this person said this or that we just say I see or something. Noone bashes. I think my campus had really grown up in the past few years and tries to help each other and tries to get the potentials. So no there is no XYZ stinks dont go there or stuff like that.

As far a quota we have in the past had 200 girls sign up on campus, then only about 80 actually go through. I will admit we always seem to have a problem getting the girls. We get tons of freshman and some other years, but not as many as wed like to see. Quota is like 10-15 Id say. I do think there is def a problem with our campus, but all Greeks have tried to recruit and it just seems we dont get as many as wed like. We have a campus of 20,000 and only 2000 live on campus so its a commuter school. We really try to get people to get involved. I know we advertise about recruitment all fall. We send fliers to freshman before they come to campus to move in. We hold fun socials on campus so people can check out greek life. We really do everything. We are even possibly inmplementing a Greek Village where all the chapters will be in one location.

I guess maybe we need to look at trying more to get more potentials though Im not sure how anymore, we do all we can now, or it seems. As far as the one chapter its just we wish we could do more or something so they didnt struggle and so they dont get discouraged. I know they have felt they are holding the other chapters back and they have wanted to really get high numbers too, its just seems to be so hard. When I was a Rho Gam some of them were so upset, they just didnt understand how they werent getting the numbers they wanted and to be honest neither were of us cause everyone was doing everything to help.