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Originally posted by CarolinaDG
I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, but...
At one point, my chapter was known as the "prude" chapter, where noone drank and noone had fun. In fact, a couple of non-greeks thought we were one of the community service sororities. So, as a "PR" move, we started letting our letters "slip out" at parties. Nothing drastic, but maybe we'd make sure to mention we were in a sorority while drinking, or "accidentally" leave our keychains on our keyrings. It was nothing that other sororities hadn't been doing for years, but it helped us lose our reputation as the "non-fun" sorority.
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We did the exact same thing. And guess what, our rush numbers started to go up. No girl wants to join a chapter full of drunks, but no one wants to join the chapter full of prudes either. Of course neither "image" is true, but if it's gotten to the point where you are losing girls to other sororities and fraternties don't want to mix with you, one way or another, you have to do something. And no, it's not true that "the good girls won't care if you're non-fun." Many of them will because they don't want to pay hundreds of $$$ in dues to join a sorority that (from what they see) never mixes with fraternities and is judgemental of people who drink.
And for the gabillionth time, at a lot of schools it doesn't make a damned bit of difference if you are in letters or not, because everyone has seen you during the week in class wearing letters anyway. To piggyback off my other post, if you're worried about girls acting like idiots when they get too drunk, educate them about their limits and how to drink responsibly instead of having BS rules about wearing letters.