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Well, say you go to a partially structured recruitment now, including quota. Knowing the greek advisor and her background, plus knowing a little about your campus, it's my feeling that this is where you're heading. You won't go all the way to formal recruitment because it might be too big of a production for three chapters to pull off (there was talk of doing away with it for our five chapters because it was too big a production when I was a senior - I'm not sure if they went to partially structured or not).
Partially structured recruitment isn't that different from COR, but it could include anything from having Rho Gammas, events where all the sororities are together, quota, etc. It's my understanding that partially structured recruitment takes the best of formal, the best of COR, and meshes them together. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the idea they were batting around for my campus).
So everyone works together to drum up interest, there's a higher number of potential new members, and you can have a quota. Thereby avoiding the problems that are brought about where chapters are working AGAINST each other, or not even against each other but with COR they're not pooling their resources. COR can be very successful, but IMO smaller chapters tend to struggle with it.
So you would have parties, sign ups, prefs, etc. You already probably have all the pieces to a partially structured recruitment and just don't know it.
Here's my advice - IMO the total thing is not going to cause an issue. It's very likely that your greek advisor, if it was her that pushed for the change, was thinking that if you all could get to total, the strength of the greek system as a whole would increase, and you'd have a lot more options as far as raising total again, or, if it was something everyone wanted to do, opening for expansion (another chapter really can help out at times). I don't think she wants to invite other organizations to colonize - she can't anyway because A. even with lowering total no one is at it right now, and B. she can't force PC to open for expansion. I think she wants the greek system to have more options (raising total, increasing strength overall of all the chapters), and keeping options open for the future.
Lowering total eases the burdens of the chapters that have the dues system you mentioned in your first post and also increases the smallest chapter's chances of reaching that total in the near future, making it an attainable goal. If the other chapter advisors aren't raising a stink about lowering total, then it shouldn't be a problem. If they are, maybe you guys could get together, WITH the greek advisor and the NPC advisor, and go over options for partially structured recruitment, have them explain what they have in mind for you, and talk about where your campus greek system is headed in the future, so you can all be on the same page and help the chapters put their best foot forward for spring recruitment.
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