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The NPC Green Book gives a few options for specific methods of calculating Total on a campus. If there are not enough women going through Recruitment to support the current Total, then it should be re-visited. While one chapter may be at Total "for as long as anybody remembers", most people who are local to the campus only remember the past few years. In my experience, on most campuses, this will cycle through different groups. A few years ago, one of the AGD chapters that I oversee were fighting lowering total. Two of the chapters on their campus were at Total for a few years in a row, two of the chapters were at about half of total. So, we had two chapters at 50, two at 25 and quota was around 9 every semester. We strongly encouraged our women to vote to lower total because it was clear that the campus wasn't supporting Total. The two bigger chapters voted against it, so it was deadlocked.
6 years later, same campus... Now there are two chapters at 40, AGD has around 35 and there is one chapter around 25. They still haven't lowered total. These chapters are doing COB year 'round, which I think is exhausting for them and detracts from all the other things that they do, because everybody is focused on recruitment ALL the time. Total should be fluid on some campuses. It can be looked at every year if necessary. If suddenly almost all the groups are very near total, then they can raise it again.
The biggest group on campus will always be resistive to this, but the Greek system as a whole tends to be more healthy when the sororities are more equal. NPC isn't about "survival of the fittest", it's about cooperating and fostering strength for all.
Dee
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