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Originally Posted by IUGreekGirl
Just a note. A lot of our chapters are pretty big already. The bigger chapters can sleep close to 100 girls in the house and still have seniors that live out. If we let more people in our chapters a chapter could have so many girls you wouldn't know all your sister.
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Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88
Chapters at IU are HUGE. Like IUGreekGirl said, there are bigger chapters that house 100+ girls and have live-outs, and I know several girls in other chapters that honestly do not know everyone in their house.
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Originally Posted by IUGreekGirl
I guess from my stand point as a collegiate greek, I want to live in with my sisters. You're so much more connected to the chapter.
The point of living together is to foster a welcoming and supporting community. That is completely embodied in living in the house. To have a "quasi-competition" (even if it is fair) would bait people against each other. I would be very resentful if I had a bad semester and then wasn't "qualified" enough to live with my sisters.
And again, we are wary of dumping the bed quota system because we don't want our houses to get any bigger, they're already huge. If your chapter had 200 members you wouldn't know the whole house.
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I think this all comes down to the North and the South are different. Not better or worse...just different. The girls from IU are saying 100 is getting too huge...meanwhile there are chapters in the SEC that have 200+ and have for a while and no one bats an eye.
It's the same thing at Penn State...they have 19 chapters, but in terms of numbers, there are probably more women in sororities at Ole Miss, even though they only have 9 chapters.
This is the way women up here want it. Period. Compare Greek systems in the North and South and at schools of all sizes, you will probably see more chapters in the North for schools of comparative sizes. If the chapters at IU did change to a normal total/quota system and got to be huger than they are, I have a feeling that a lot of people who are in it wouldn't want to be part of it. I personally would have been wary of pledging a chapter of 100 and 200 I wouldn't have even rushed.
It's just a regional difference and you can't legislate it away.
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