Oh heavens. I'd forgotten about that scene, been away too long. The "much weaker" sororities waiting for their pledges outside and you can tell they're not excited--the sorority next door to us at Auburn took 16 my senior year when quota was 40 and several flunked out. Two sororities at Arkansas and three at Miss. State, just waiting stolidly with no smiles, forcing them when their tiny pledge classes walked up.
And I say "walked up" because rarely are the pledges of the extremely weak (note I'm not saying small, medium, or younger; there's a huge difference between those groups and troubled ones) sororities running up in delirious joy. It's worst when those groups are sandwiched between huge and/or very successful groups and they have to watch everybody else celebrating.
I hate it, it's depressing. I want all the groups to be happy and successful and I want all the PNMs to be happy too. I'd like to hear how other campuses address parity and quota and so forth.
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