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They don't need to feel ASHAMED. There is room between shame and completely upending the system they know, love and trust. I think a continued discussion with the current active chapter members would be helpful to institute small changes. The part that is tough for them, for everyone to figure out is how much change how quickly. If the rumor was true about a few more chapters instituting change to allow seniors to live out, it doesn't surprise me that it wouldn't apply to the current year's juniors. These girls didn't join with that as part of their plan. But I do hope it IS true and that future classes will have that as part of the plan. However, that's family business and the rest of us don't need to know until it affects us directly, which is to say when they choose to add some additional new members during future rushes.
Anyone have any feedback on initial visits with the DPhiE folks? It sounds like they certainly have a quality pool from which to draw. For the mothers out there, do keep in mind that colonies want all 4 years represented so even though the colony might take 200 girls, maybe only 100 of them might be freshmen. It's not exactly quarters (they probably DON'T need 50 seniors using this example), but it's not all going to be the freshmen who were just disappointed. It may even be girls who have never rushed. This goes back to not assuming anything about member selection. It's private and their reasoning may not make any sense to you. And by the way, I have no idea how many members they are planning on taking. I'm just guessing at 200 because that seems like a good number to me.
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