I haven't read the responses yet so forgive me if I repeat something, but on big campuses there is usually a large house to pay for. Fraternities on my campus had different sized houses-some had fancy ones (the larger fraternities) and some had small regular houses. We had a sorority row and all the sororities had huge houses-if you only have 30-40 women in your chapter that is not going to pay the rent and there is no way in hell you will be competitive with the larger chapters that have 140 women. It depends on the campus but on mine you could not just be the *smaller* house and survive. i think comparing fraternities to sororities at least on my campus is like comparing apples to oranges-you just can't say well we have 20 frats why can't we have 20 sororities and why can;t some of them be small and some be large.
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Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
The immediate objection is that everyone will go Pi Pi and no one will join Du Du. One could put a cap on the number of bids given out, I suppose. But the guys seem to manage fine with houses of varying sizes. And because of that, the stigma of being *slightly* smaller disappears. Sure, being a house of 12 when the others have 50 is noticed, but having 40, who cares?
The biggest thing I can say to recommend this is - at almost every campus I know of, except women's colleges, there are more fraternities than sororities, and more Greek men than women. How many women do you know who hated formal rush and took their chances on COB? Or who don't go Greek at all because the thought of formal terrifies them? So - what is it they are doing better than us, especially given that there are slightly more college women then men?
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