[33girl]

I think that most of the women on here have mentioned the "breathing down your neck" as a numbers aspect rather than a risk mgmt aspect.

Phoenix - not all national chapters have huge pledge classes - that's mainly in the South. I don't think any sorority, national OR local, in the Northeast is anything like that.

lauralaylin, every single NPC sorority out there has done a recolonization while the old members were still on campus and made them alums. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't. They may say that the old members voted to do this, but sometimes it's a case of "either you can vote and say you voted or we will just recolonize you anyway." The charter isn't "yanked" from campus but active membership is "yanked" from the current members.

The main thing is like Little E said, nationals and locals need to learn to respect and work with each other. National Sorority XYZ can't blow into a college full of locals and expect everyone to start doing things their way. If you can't handle the campus culture as it is, you probably should not start a chapter there. By the same token, the locals need to realize all those rules and regs the nationals have are there for a reason.