Raising Total
A friend's daughter told me about the sorority membership situation at her college. This college, which is quite near us, has 5 sororities with 4 at total or above. The other group is much smaller; I don't know why since they're one of the older groups.
Anyway, the 4 at total are wanting to raise total so they can have a spring rush. Apparently, there are plenty of girls who want to pledge them. However, our friend's daughter is in the 5th group--they only took 9 last fall when everyone else took (I think) 35. They haven't been able to get any pledges in open rush.
So what do you think Panhellenic should do? Should they try to help the smaller group or should they go ahead and raise total? This being the South, it's awfully hard to convince PNMs that they should go to the smaller group as they tend to have their minds made up before rush.
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