NPC Recruitment and Chapter Listing: Fall 2022-Spring 2023

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Originally Posted by clemsongirl

Curious about a couple things that you or someone at IU might know more about:

-did ASA participate in formal recruitment this year? 0 new members means I'm guessing not. do they have a house?

-what does the 1 released PNM after open invite mean? was there one PNM so...unique...that every chapter declined to invite her back to philanthropy? if so, oof.

-at the bottom of the document it says "IU does not set campus total" in bold and italics so you know they really mean it. I might be out of date on my green book, but I thought there were a couple ways to calculate total NPC allows and then the campus itself selects which one to use? like mean, median, highest chapter size? am I totally off-base?

I am an IU alum, I can definitely answer a couple of these. ASA has an office, not sure that is the correct word for it, but it's a central meeting spot. They can hang out there, have events, etc. They do not have a chapter house. They are down to around 40 members if I have been told correctly, so they were basically unable to complete formal recruitment. They do the bulk of their recruitment informally.

IU does not set campus total due to the different living situations. There are large traditional chapter houses, one chapter lives in an apartment block, and one chapter has a central meeting spot. By not setting campus total, chapters can better meet their housing goals. Some houses sleep 70ish while some could sleep 110+. This allows all chapters to be able to stay financially viable while making quota. Some COB to fill bed spots or a number their national organization would like them to meet.

As far as the 1 PMN released...if social media is to be believed she was an "influencer" who went to parties in the late fall and posted live from a fraternity house and then the house suffered some university consequences. There was a "fear" that she might make a habit of it and she was released by all chapters. I cannot verify this, but I have seen it written and heard it a couple of different places.