After announcing to vote on whether or not to raise the member quota for sororities, the Panhellenic Council executive board decided to not vote at all.
Instead, they abided by a National Panhellenic Council policy which they recently decided to adopt, said Danica Craig, president of the PHC.
According to the policy, the automatic reset of chapter total will be to the average chapter size.
“Most national organizations were on board with that during the discussion, so there have been no complaints or anything like that,” Craig said.
The new total number of women required is 136, an average of all the chapter’s sizes. In the past year, the minimum was 113 women.
This was the first time all of the chapters met their quota of 113, and Craig said there was no point in keeping a low total number if all the chapters were already there.
With the change, five chapters will have to go through open recruitment in order to meet the new requirement.
“It’s just trying to keep all the chapters as close in size as possible, and if the chapters need more members, it gives them a chance to recruit and get more members,” Craig said.
She said no one was angry about the decision and chapters were encouraged to consult their national chapters to decide what to do about open recruitment.
However, Sigma Kappa delegate Samantha Coppedge said this year had been the first year in a while that they had met their total and didn’t have to participate in open recruitment.
Coppedge did not want to raise the minimum members number and said open bidding was a stressful process.
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