Sell Out or Die With Pride.... That is the Question.

[cosmoxnyc]

Although we enjoy staying small, My local organization has recently shrunk in size. We need a certain number of girls to be considered an organization and are seeing 2 huge classes graduate within the next two years, bringing our numbers to a much smaller thn desirabl number.

Recruitment this year gave us only 4 girls, and although we are hoping all cross, we are not positive that all 4 will. 2 definate... 2 unsure...

we do not want to lose the ideals for which the rest of us came into the organization for, as well as what we stand for as a whole.

we are in danger of dying out within the next year/2 and desperately need help.

recruitment usually goes better for us. well actually recuritment usually goes badly but we routinely do well through COB.

some ideas we have been toying with.

1. Leaving Panhell. - there are 3 local fraternities on campus where at least 2 have approached us about starting a local reek governin body. we think this will allow us more leeway but may make recruiting girls harder as we would no longer be allowed to participate in regular recruitment

2. Going national - i am not sure of the process, or what this would mean for our organization, but honestly the idea makes me and many others uneasy. we like being local and have always prided ourselves on those ideals.

3. Shortening our process. our process is longer than other sororities and typically viewed as tougher. all of our ceremonies and education nights have purpose and teach lessons we all highly value. some girls think cutting our program down would make us more appealing to girls, but i think it is just a start of us selling ourselves out.

i do not want us to die, but i do not want us to sell out.

if anyone has any ideas for conquering anything, any feedback on the aforementioned, or ideas for better ways or how to make anything work...
please please help us.

thanks.

cosmo