Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

[33girl]

There are ways to "take one for the team" other than telling someone to not come to rush at all. From what I'm getting, the national consultant didn't even suggest kitchen duty or ask the women of the chapter what a good way to deal w/ this would be - she just said DON'T COME TO RUSH AT ALL.

And if this chapter IS ALREADY APPRECIABLY SMALLER THAN THE OTHERS, which apparently is the case, the rushees are going to notice that anyway. I'm sorry, but if anyone, national consultants or chapter officers or advisors, think the rushees won't notice this chapter has 80 girls while the other chapters have 200, they are too stupid to exist. That in and of itself is "different" enough to scare rushees away from the chapter, if we're operating on the principle that different = kiss of death.

Bottom line, if your chapter's numbers are a lot smaller than the other groups' to begin with, keeping the "image impaired" ladies away from rush isn't going to help your recruitment. You have to explain it in some way and it would be better to use your time thinking of a positive spin to put on that than figuring out who's skinny enough to rush and who is not.