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Originally Posted by BBelleADPi
Silverpearls:
There isn't a single sorority that doesn't have a chapter on campus somewhere that isn't now, or has been, in your situation. While we'd all like to think "our" group is always the most wanted chapter everywhere during recruitment, it simply isn't so. We all have chapters that are the best, in the middle, and struggling-and often for similar reasons. I think many of us who have been around for awhile have also seen the turnaround on campuses-where the lofty fall, and the others rise.
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This is so true, and that is why hearing about how a chapter worked to turn it around is such a good object lesson.
Recently, I was shocked to hear about the struggles of a group on my old campus. Twenty years ago, they were very competitive, always attracting their share of top new members, active on campus with a good solid reputation, always at full quota and total.
But, take a little internal strife, mix it with a year or two of poor choices for officers, a couple of shaky formal recruitments, and suddenly they were way down in numbers as frustrated members de-activated and new members quit prior to initiation. Following that, several difficult years of struggling to make quota, fill a large house and turn around campus perceptions and stereotypes. One situation leads to another in a cascade effect, and it takes hard work and the cooperation of a lot of people plus maybe a little luck to turn it around.
Perhaps this thread has received such a response because so many of us realize it could happen to any chapter, given the right kindling.
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