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This is what I know of the situation (one of our advisors is from Theta): Chapter total is 80, but after fall rush the largest sorority had 65 girls. Every single sorority participates in year-round COBing, as far as I know. Tri Delta is the smallest sorority (as the article says 30-35ish members), but not by much -- the next closest is no bigger than 40, if that.
I get the impression that this is a situation where
(1) either HQ doesn't understand the campus Greek culture
(2) there is some other problem (hazing, financial problems, risk management problems) in addition to the numbers problems
or (3) the chapter has been trouble with rush for years and years (I know they have been since before I was there two years ago) and HQ is losing money.
Spring rush is coming up soon so hopefully they can get enough girls to prevent their chapter closing, but it seems tough when the campus paper prints an article that they're struggling.
For the record, we had a rush workshop with them last spring and they are very sweet girls, but they are very atypical "sorority girls," even for a laid-back campus like Minnesota -- fairly quiet and shy for the most part -- which I can see causing problems in formal rush.
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