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Originally Posted by pinklion10
The campus is small, and in order to get people, we have to PR, so it's public knowledge. I doubt the recruitment committee will agree to invite-only events... we really can't afford to be so exclusive with our numbers, unfortunately.
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See, your thinking is totally backwards on this point. Ask yourselves (literally, ask the chapter) how/why you joined. How many came to an event because they saw a flyer (without already knowing a member who could have personally extended the invite)? That is how you get it past the recruitment committee too. Why would you keep doing something that obviously hasn't been working? Ask yourself if every time you blast campus-wide invites that helps your chapter's image that you yourself described as needing a little oomph.
It isn't about being exclusive with numbers. It makes the PNMs you do invite feel special (like they are NOT just a number to you) which will make them more likely to come than if they saw that every girl on campus could come (and PNMs impliedly think that this means every girl on campus could join, even if it isn't true).
I know that this probably sounds counterintuitive, but you said yourself that often Ms. Mooch is the only one at these events. It doesn't look like the status quo is working, so why not give it a try?
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