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Originally Posted by carnation
Campus culture doesn't have as much to do with it as the perceptions of PNMs. Even women who've never set foot on the campus before will look at these sororities with the gorgeous houses and compare them to living in the dorms/having meetings in the Union and which do you think that a teenager will prefer? And then if they end up involuntarily in an unhoused chapter, most are not going to think, "I will now lead my chapter into such glory that we'll be up there competing with the Awesome Alphas!" Most are gonna have serious second thoughts about Greek life.
And even though the members of the housed chapters will pay lip service (sometimes) to the unhoused chapters, do you think they'd trade their membership for one in an unhoused chapter?
I wish it were different because some of my daughters had great Greek experiences on campuses with no sorority housing.
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I don't know any member that's going to want to switch her membership to another chapter besides trolls here.
But I maintain, that if there's "no solution" then removing RFM isn't the answer either. Those campuses will either have to find a solution or deal with the pledge class size.
ETA: and no, I don't think PNMs are unavoidably dazzled by houses and such either. Some dazzle yes, complete inability to consider anything else no.
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