<p>I'm a part of the smallest greek group on campus and we're on a huge decline. We've always been small and we're going on 100 years now, one of the oldest groups on campus. At the start of the school year, we were 22 active members, but then a few girls deactivated. We also have 13 seniors graduating in the spring, so it was pretty imperative that we recruited some new members. </p>
<p>Well, we did rush, which I thought was great since we did games and stuff to try and make it as unique from other groups as possible. We're known to be the weird, awkward, dorky ones and that's fine. We also used to have the reputation that even though we're small we know how to party and are a lot of fun. In the past few years, the members we get are more and more antisocial and more against greek life as a whole. Nobody tried to recruit through the year, and the ones who I thought would be active sorority members kinda just said fuck it and would hang out with their friends that they had before they started pledging. (Greek unity is a thing at my school). There's also this new sorority that was founded three years ago, and while people didn't like them originally, they are now one of the most popular groups on campus. </p>
<p>The rushees this year were like 260, and we invited a good 220 back into the second stage. 21 girls said that they would come to the next stage, and only 11 showed up. I really liked a lot of the girls and I could see them as my sisters. When bid day came around, we only had 3 pledges. Because that was such a low number we got permission to gather up as many people as we could to pledge us. We called maybe 60 girls and only 2 said they would pledge, and one of them dropped a few days later. We also called all of the girls who didn't get bids and nobody accepted ours. Most people would rather be a GDI then to be a part of us. What can I possibly do to change this?</p>