Co-Ed Fraternity in need of some serious help!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by dnall

A few reasons.

First, I'm not going to chase down the 'elsewhere.' I don't care that much.

Second, I'd rather ignore it and drive on with the question at hand. Maybe they made mistakes in the past. That doesn't negate their right to legitimate answers now.

No, but it does provide context for their question and additional data for an informed answer.

And third... I take it from the other posts this person was interested in traditional rush and ended up opting for this co-ed thing. I don't know this person. I don't know what actually happened in the real world. Maybe they did try and got cut, maybe it just wasn't for them. Maybe a hundred other things. I don't know, and honestly it doesn't matter. Telling them 'I told you so' doesn't help anyone.

Nope. That's not what happened. This person was part of the decision to turn a sorority into a co-ed fraternity. If you click on the link I provided above, you see this:

Originally Posted by PsiXiOmicron

hi my name is Maghen and I am an alpha epsilon of Psi Xi Omicron a local sorority at Daemen College in Buffalo New York. I have a lot of questions but no where to turn for answers so I am hoping i can get some help here. My sorority is about 20 years old but we are very close to extinction. Last night me and my sisters were talking about a lot of different ways to help this sorority. I just recently found of that our sorority dos not have any help from alumni. How do we get alumni more involved. Another question is since we are so close to extinction how could we recruit that will bring people in. Another topic that came up is last night was how can we turn our all girl sorority into a co-ed frat.Do you think anyone would be interested in pledging. We just need some guidance can someone help.

The "I told you sos," to the extent there were any, were people responding to this post by warning that going co-ed wasn't likely to be a fix-it-all and might make matters worse.

I'm all for giving the best advice possible, and I can understand not wanting to be cynical. But I'm just not sure under all these circumstances that saying they should have around 20 people by the end of the semester is realistic. If I were them, I'd give myself longer to get there.