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Originally Posted by gee_ess
I believe it is an actual hardship on the current chapters to keep giving them these large pledge classes, and the University is doing nothing to alleviate these problems
(can you tell I get riled up about this?)
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It is hard on these chapters to keep having such large classes, no matter what the scale. Even at Georgia Tech, where the pledge class numbers were in the high 40's, that was about 10 girls too many for the size of their chapter rooms, dining rooms, etc. After about 4 years of even just an extra 10 girls, you're bursting at the seams.
On the other hand, it's hard to do anything about it with any kind of speed. It's kind of like building new schools in fast growing areas (if you're from the Atlanta area, you know what I'm talking about). By the time something can actually be done, the problem is so big that the relief isn't enough. The process for adding a new chapter to campus takes awhile, and in old established places doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be successful right away either. And then there's the problem of equality in housing...depending on the commitment from the national office, there may or may not be money for a house. In the case of my daughters' chapter at GT, they were the newest chapter (until the addition of Alpha Phi) on campus, coming on in 1989 but did not have a house until just a few years ago. It was relatively new when my daughter was a freshman in 2005 and they are unable to hold chapter meetings there because they have too many girls.....already. And they have the newest and biggest house.
For everyone's sake, I wish it was easy.
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