Recruit more girls to think about pledging

[33girl]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

"Suitcase" school is when nobody hangs around for the weekend. They all hightail it back home to hang with their high school buddies.

Yes, and I think for a lot of schools it's getting worse and worse since people can keep in touch w/ their HS friends more easily. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but when you can text & IM your HS friends all week to find out what's going on that weekend, basically only being apart from them physically, it makes you less likely to "have" to get involved at college.

Hopefully the high gas prices will help slow it.

To the OP - are the other sororities having the same problem w/ membership?

[Thetagirl218]

My alma mater is sometimes considered a "suitcase" college. However, it never really effected membership. I think this was because Chapter was on Sunday nights for all the GLOs on campus! It made people stick around!

[RaggedyAnn]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

Chapter was on Sunday nights for all the GLOs on campus! It made people stick around!

I was actually going to say something similar-give the sisters a reason to stick around on weekends. I'm not suggesting mandatory events on a Saturday, but if you ladies had a tradition of breakfast together or a fun service project on Saturday afternoons...