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Originally posted by Tom Earp
As far as LARGE Groups, I for one agree, I feel that I want to know My Brothers, not be the biggest of the big and not know someone.
Yep it is about right, 20 % do the work and 80 % dont do squat, they are just a damn number to build memebership! They know their only Little Qlicks of Sweetys!
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I was and still am a member of a smaller service sorority *around 35 members* and a new pledge of Kappa Delta *around 120-130 members*. So I'm beginning to see the ups and downs of both sides.
But I have to disagree with the smaller groups being WAY MORE "SISTERLY" than the larger groups. Maybe its being stopped a thousand times on campus by over a hundred of your sisters, or maybe its the huge phone list of girls you can call or that call you *tonight i got 10 phone calls just asking how i was doing*, or maybe its the fact that I can sit down at 5pm for house dinner and still not want to leave at 10pm.
I personally feel that in smaller groups you have:
a.) more gossip floating around. It is much too easy to know what so and so did and pass it around to all 30 members than it is to pass it around to 150!
b.) Tom I think it is unfair to say that the 20% and 80% ratio works only in smaller chapters. There were about four dedicated girls other than the officers that worked their lil' butts off to make the sorority look good! And let me remind you, that this is a service organization. We were not about building numbers! We were about service! So I think if you believe the 20/80 ratio works in larger chapters, you have to consider that it prolly works for smaller chapters as well.
c.) Smaller chapters allow members to point blame. There are only so many girls, so many problems, and at one point in time a sister will point the blame finger on you. This causes so much tension! I can not tell you how stressed I was all year last year as President.
d.) I, personally feel that in a smaller chapter you have "too many chiefs and not enough engines*totally misspelled but you get my point*" Although you have many sisters who want to lead - you'll also have sisters who decide to take over things, or backstab to get things, or decide that they have the correct way of thinking and you do not.
Excuse me for rambling - I'm running on no sleep. IMO its a personal opinion whether you like smaller or larger chapters. To say that one is better overall is not cool and not something that you can honestly back up with solid proof. So why say it? Discuss it, yes. But go on a rampage about it and assume your right, no.
Just b/c I like the larger chapter house doesn't give anybody the right to call me a dumb a**. Please, if you read my other posts there are plenty of other reasons for that. So if this discussion is continued can we lay off the personal attacks?
Cause I"m not really good at that.
