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Personally, I think it's a bad call to try to colonize on a campus where every group is housed with no house and no plans for a house.
Going by the DZ colonization at UF, their methods (rushing at a fraternity house--showing their clear plans to build a house) enabled them to recruit well.
We have the same issue on my campus. If we were ever to expand, we'd have to have a house--and it is very costly. The sad thing is that this limits expansion to orgs with a lot of money (ie, large orgs), and that it puts a lot of economic pressure on colonies.
However, I will say that it does seem that colonization efforts are getting more and more support and are resulting in stronger new chapters. How many times have we heard of situations where a new group colonizes, doesn't have the strength/momentum of the other groups on campus, struggles for 5-6 years, closes, only to be followed by another unsucessful colonization on the campus in question?? We need to find ways to support our colonies so they don't end up at the bottom of the pecking order! An important issue for all NPCs!!!
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