recruitment numbers and reputations

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Damasa,
The administration on Carnation's campus is in complete denial over the situation. The locals are dying - noone wants to go thru recruitment because of the hazing. Last year they tried to 'force' rushees into the smallest group just to revitalize it (can you say 'to heck with mutual preference?') and all the girls dropped out immediately. The local groups (from what Carnation has said) have no alumnae support or advisors and pretty much run themselves and ignore the administration's weak attempts to get the hazing to stop.

Carnation's campus sitation is defintely not a situation of 'all locals are bad' and 'lets do away with all locals', but rather a realization that once things have degraded this far, it takes radical acts to resolve the problems. If that means getting rid of the locals and bringing in nationals, so be it. I'd rather lose a bad local (or national for that matter) than allow a group to continue hazing and perpetuating negative stereotypes. It's issues like the one Carnation and Shadowkat have described that bring down ALL GLOs.