Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by James

Closing a chapter because you are afraid to hurt some people's feelings is . . . I would say insane, but maybe not well thought out would be better.

C'mon, you know it's not that black/white. Chapters forced to make this type of decision did not get to that point because of a couple overweight girls. It's likely an established pattern within the chapter, and it's probably in part due to the sorority culture and hierarchy on that campus. As others here have said, almost every NPC campus has a chapter that gets pecked on every year...the one that all the PNMs drop after first parties if they can. And every year, some PNMs don't get invited back to the "top" houses and are left with only the "bottom" house in the end.

And for the most part, campus panhellenics like it this way, because they know that as soon as that bottom chapter is gone, one of them will be next.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

C'mon, you know it's not that black/white. Chapters forced to make this type of decision did not get to that point because of a couple overweight girls.

Yeah, I was going to say, let's get a grip here. Your chapter's destiny will not be decided by whether or not you have one overweight girl in the room.

As far as the actives having an obligation to keep the chapter going - when you graduate, you leave that chapter in the actives' hands. You have to trust them and the decisions they make. I think their obligation is to do what they feel is right, not sell your soul just to keep the chapter going. Like Tippie said, I'd rather see my chapter close than come back and see girls I'm ashamed to be associated with who were pledged just for the sake of numbers, or hear that shady stuff is going on just so we can do well at rush/Greek week/what have you.