Sorority in crisis, please help!!

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Sisters living in the house are preferable to boarders who may be inconvenienced by having to leave the house they pay rent at when you host ritual events.

The house corp, being made up of sorority alum, should also recognize there is a possible "danger" in housing non-members in the sorority house -- breach in ritual, other sororities on campus talking about you and starting rumors that inhibit your recruitment, etc.

Your house corp should pay to break leases for those sisters who have already signed with off-campus housing/on-campus residence halls, etc. This will cost them far less in the long-run.

First, make this offer to all chapter members. See how many spots you still have open. Next, require any chapter officers not currently living-in to live in. Again, house corp. will pay to break their leases. At best you fill the house this way. At worst, someone drops her office and refuses to live in-- in which case you fill the office when the school year begins. If there are any spots still open after these first two options have been exhausted, require your most recent pledge class to fill the remaining spots until they're gone.

Some people may drop b/c of this-- but if they're going to throw this kind of hissy fit, you probably don't want them around anyway.

You also need to amend your chapter bylaws once the school year begins to address what you should do if the house is not full and the order of priority for members to move-in. In fact, review your bylaws now-- the guide may already be in there!