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Originally Posted by SECdomination
A small chapter has to do everything they can to stay open.
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I hate to revisit the DePauw situation, but one of the things that the women who left that chapter alleged was that they were keeping their numbers steady and that they always had women coming up who wanted to pledge them. They weren't in debt or unable to fill offices. But that wasn't good enough for the national, she said, they wanted the "Barbie" image. Basically, she said if DZ would have just let them be "the smart quirky chapter" and recruit the smart quirky women, they wouldn't have had a problem.
If a chapter at an SEC school was under that much pressure to pledge women, who the hell do you think they end up pledging? Anyone who will sign a bid, that's who. What if they got a huge pledge class, got their numbers up to total, but every woman in that pledge class was over 200 pounds with a mustache? Do you think that would fly?
Believe me, I've been on the receiving end of "you need to pledge more girls and get your numbers up, no matter what" and then a year later, hearing "WHAT ON EARTH made you pledge those girls?"
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