Still, if Wabash guys could gain a better reputation compared to other college guys, it might give girls a reason to make an inconvenient trip to Crawfordsville. Above all, Wabash parties need to become unique to this campus. FIJI Island, Grateful Delt, Kamanawana-you know, the National Act, and other similar parties bring people because they promise to be a blast. SSAC parties could be great if the houses worked to get women here, but they would have to do more than just promise them an all campus party. How about dinner, a philanthropic event, or a closed party following an all-campus.
Small parties are great too.
Unfortunately, by nature, these are closed to independents. It is easy to say that these students should have joined a house if they wanted to live somewhere with the organizational power to host parties, but this denies the fact that a quarter of campus would be left out of these small parties. In any case, a successful party brings people back. Women need to come to this campus and feel like they've been treated well. If they feel comfortable and have a good time, they'll come back.