aopi closing? can it be confirmed?

AOPi closing effective May 3; all current UK members to be given alumnae status.

Lol they have a recruitment meeting for this upcoming fall. They aren’t closing

Hey all! We voted to close our chapter this semester.
I'm still super proud of my chapter, I love my chapter and all our sisters.

Recruitment 2017 was really rough for us, as you're probably aware, we didn't even get 30 girls. At that time, there was 0 talk of closing the chapter. HOWEVER, thanks to this lovely website and rumors that we were closing because of our small pledge class, we had a lot of PNMs that were wary of us because they didn't want to be part of a failing chapter. This resulted in another small pledge class in 2018.

Unfortunately its a positive feedback loop
Low amounts of girls on bid day > rumors we're closing > no one wants to join > low numbers of girls on bid day > more rumors we're closing etc.

it has gotten to the point that the rumors aren't just rumors anymore and we are closing. We decided it would be best to surrender our charter and come back on campus in 5 years with a fresh start and a few years later build a new house than to struggle and die a slow death with the lowest numbers we've had in decades. We basically had to put down the family dog.

On the bright side, without the dark cloud of recruitment looming over us, we will be focusing our philanthropy (the Arthritis Foundation) and fun sisterhood events for the rest of the semester.