under total, negative stereotypes, not sure what to do?

[33girl]

Also, in the words of Wayne: YOU'RE WORTHY! Go out to different fraternities besides the old reliables. Of-age sisters, be visible at the popular nightclubs or bars. Participate in campus activities - including those that are bordering on beauty contests. Fat used as a stereotype often doesn't truly mean "fat" but rather "dumpy, shy and boring." Get out of your comfort zones and take risks. It makes ALL the difference in the world.

You mentioned the same girls doing everything all the time. If you have dead weight in your chapter, CUT IT. If girls aren't showing up for sisterhood events, meetings, or mixers, bring them in front of standards board and tell them they either need to show up or get out. If it's not that, but just girls who are shy and need a push - push them. Again, get out of that comfort zone.

If the school is having a problem getting girls to rush in general, probably what is happening is that most of the girls rushing ARE the stereotypical type. You need to reach out to other girls through COB and through meeting them in other activities. Once you have the members, ask your HQ for help in conducting formal rush (as in sending another chapter to help you practice). Too many groups get their numbers up through COB, then don't know how to formal rush, suck at formal rush, confidence plummets, and have to scramble and COB again. You need to be skilled at BOTH types of rush to succeed.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

You mentioned the same girls doing everything all the time. If you have dead weight in your chapter, CUT IT.

YES. Times a million.

Chapters are always SO afraid to hold girls accountable for not participating.

DO IT.

When they joined, they agreed to do ______ with the cosequence of {insert your orgs consequence here: standards/honor council/whatever} if they didn't.

Hold them to that.

Chapters always say "but if we do that, we'll be even smaller!"

Here's the thing though, the dead weight isn't SHOWING UP ANYWAY. So that extra number isn't even benefitting you guys. Cut them out and replace them with someone who will be a number AND show up.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Fat used as a stereotype often doesn't truly mean "fat" but rather "dumpy, shy and boring."

This is a good point. You could encourage women to sleep around a bit, so that you'd be known as the slutty chapter instead.

(kidding, of course)