Less popular sororities

[carnation]

A major thing that's helping overcome this is the new release figures. I can think of several chapters that were on the verge of dying that have come up to total or almost so in the last 5 years.

I can remember how Erik Conard used to say--bluntly but truthfully-- that we all ought to help the "weenie" chapters because if they died, any one of our groups could be the next weenie.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by carnation

A major thing that's helping overcome this is the new release figures. I can think of several chapters that were on the verge of dying that have come up to total or almost so in the last 5 years.

I can remember how Erik Conard used to say--bluntly but truthfully-- that we all ought to help the "weenie" chapters because if they died, any one of our groups could be the next weenie.

Yep; it's kind of funny that we went so long without them, considering how much they seem to do beneficially with relatively few differences in bad outcome, as near as I can tell.

[gee_ess]

I agree that the new release figures are definitely helping the overall system.

[AGDee]

The PNMs also don't realize that if they all went to that chapter together, they could potentially completely change the chapter around. Becuase of a rough summer, my chapter returned with 15 members the semester after I was initiated. We took 19 women through formal recruitment that year though. The personality of the chapter changed completely.

[SthrnZeta]

Originally Posted by AGDee

The PNMs also don't realize that if they all went to that chapter together, they could potentially completely change the chapter around. Becuase of a rough summer, my chapter returned with 15 members the semester after I was initiated. We took 19 women through formal recruitment that year though. The personality of the chapter changed completely.

Though I agree with your point in theory, PNMs just don't think that way. They're blinded by tent talk and reputations and those things can stigmatize a chapter. All they want is a top tier and they'll feel like they're lowering their standards to take a bottom tier group. It's only after they've been in the NPC arena for a bit do they realize the error of their ways and by then it's too late.

[abfab02]

Originally Posted by carnation

A major thing that's helping overcome this is the new release figures. I can think of several chapters that were on the verge of dying that have come up to total or almost so in the last 5 years.

I can remember how Erik Conard used to say--bluntly but truthfully-- that we all ought to help the "weenie" chapters because if they died, any one of our groups could be the next weenie.

What do you mean by "new release figures"? I'd really like to find new ways to help bring our chapter up to total.

Originally Posted by abfab02

What do you mean by "new release figures"? I'd really like to find new ways to help bring our chapter up to total.

http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=22514

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by OTW

http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=22514

Excellent! I was writing when you were posting it.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by abfab02

What do you mean by "new release figures"? I'd really like to find new ways to help bring our chapter up to total.

Please look in the recruitment forum; I think there's a stickied thread at the top about them with a detailed overview.


In short, though, they are a method that a campus panhellenic can use to get the chapters who usually have a high percentage of their party invitations accepted to release many of the girls who will not get bids much earlier in the recruitment process. Rather than going all the way through recruitment hoping to get a bid from a chapter that probably won't bid them, the PNMs start looking at other chapters more seriously relatively early in the process.