Should the system of Quota be changed? A look at the Nebraska system

[NUBlue&Blue]

That's interesting, and I think that they've always done it that way. I was a bit "distracted" in college, always had big boyfriend drama going, so I really don't remember a lot of the details, but I do remember that some houses would have pretty small pledge classes (about 10 or so less than the average).

Also, I don't know if it's still the case, but because we had relatively large houses, you HAD to live in the house, but the numbers were also flexible because it also depended on how many Lincoln girls you had in each pledge class. So it also depended on the size of the sorority house, and how many you could house there. I really don't remember anybody who lived out of the house after freshman year, and if you were an upperclassman pledge, you had to move in at the semester if there was room (from graduation in December, usually).

This is all a dim memory, but I've finally figured out why I really never could understand all the talk on here about total....but I figured I just wasn't paying attention. Sounds like a little of both!

[sdbeta1]

So at what point are new sororities asked to come onto campus? If houses are reaching quotas, and girls aren't getting bid then that means there is supply for another sorority. Whereas, if the total is changing, houses would keep getting bigger and bigger until they reach the point of not wanting more members. So in the case of Nebraska, is there ever a time when they see houses as being too big?

[NUBlue&Blue]

You're talking about a sorority system that is OLD--meaning my chapter celebrated its centennial when I was in college over 20 years ago, and most chapters are a single greek letter. "New" sororities are ones that came on campus in the 30's or 40's. Those two have gone on and off campus a couple of times over the years, mostly with housing issues, I think. They were the only two that had "open rush" when I was in school, using the terms from the olden days.

I can't speak with any authority, though, I haven't lived there nor paid much attention to what is going on there for 20 years. The only thing I can say is that in an old system, change doesn't come easily. I look at the chapter websites and the ABC's still look like ABC's and the XYZ's still look like the XYZ's.