Competition with nationals?

[damasa]

I was just wondering how all of you that belong to a local fraternity or sorority deal with competition from nationals? Are you more successful than the bigger nationals? Do they have the advantage on your org?

At my university, we are currently the strongest fraternity on campus, we have the largest number of members, our presence is felt, we participate and help the university in almost twice as many things as any other fraternity..and we are the only local! We have been doing a great job these last few years and we don't feel threatened by the nationals....

What's your situation? Just being nosy, because I've heard many say that a local among nationals will get crushed...well, we've survived 30 years so far..and we are going strong, I also know of a few sororites on other university campuses close to mine that are succeeding.

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