HELP! Local to reg. or nat.

[33girl]

Even if you do add chapters and become a regional or national group, it will take a long long long LONG time before you're on the same level as the national/NPC groups on campus.

I would tell your Greek advisor to go pound sand. Unless she has written comments from girls saying "I didn't join LocalSorority because they are local" she has NO idea why the girls did what they did. It could be that she is part of the problem.

When you say "taking your PNMs away" do you mean outdoing you in rush, or do you mean literally enticing girls to quit and start pledging them? If it's the latter, they should be disciplined. If you are a full member of your school's Panhellenic, then they have to treat you the same as they would treat any other Panhellenic member group - that includes not being allowed to pledge any other group for a year if they quit pledging you. Again, this would be the fault of the Greek advisor for not enforcing it.

Unless you're having problems filling a physical plant or unless your numbers have dwindled to the point where you can't fill basic offices, don't put pressure on yourselves to get numbers for the sake of numbers. Ask your alums for help - for example, networking. List companies where alums work on your website - and make the women aware during rush that not only will those alums feel positively about them because of their sorority affiliation, but also because they KNOW they're from the same school. Just walking in to a company where Annie ABC from State U works and saying "I'm an ABC too!" doesn't mean crap if you were an ABC at a school that Annie's chapter thought they were "above" sometimes.