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I sure hope that this is not true. Epsilon-Omega has been a strong Kappa Sig chapter for years, and the largest fraternity chapter on the Georgia State campus.
As of today, Epsilon-Omega at Georgia State is still included in the lists of active chapters and colonies on the Fraternity Website. Unfortunately, unlike most other fraternities, Kappa Sigma rarely announces or reports the closure of chapters or colonies. It is the sort of information about which many members would like to be kept informed, and, of course, there are lessons to be learned from every chapter or colony closure. But the powers that be in the fraternity have a heads-in-the-sand attitude about announcing or reporting anything negative. So a chapter or colony that has closed for whatever reason or reasons is simply quietly removed from the aforesaid lists, without any announcement, reporting, or other mention on the Website or in The Caduceus. The Minutes of the SEC Meetings that are published in The Star and Crescent contain brief mentions that the SEC voted to close the colony at school X or to revoke the charter of Y chapter, but never state the reasons(s) for such closure. Furthermore, the publication of those Minutes is always months behind the times. The most recent Meeting's Minutes that are available on the Website are those from the April, 2008 Meeting, even months ago ... and at times the postings of those Minutes have been as much as a year afterwards. So neither The Caduceus nor The Star and Crescent are much help at all if one wants to try to keep abreast of matters such as chapter and colony closures, and the only way that one ordinarily learns that a chapter or a colony has been closed is through having it mentioned on a site like this, or simply by noticing that the chapter or colony is no longer included in the active chapters and colonies lists.
The powers that be in the Fraternity having set a goal of 300 active chapters and colonies at the time of the 2009 Conclave. At the start of the current academic year we needed 50 new colonies to be established before Conclave to achieve that goal, WITHOUT ANY then-existing colonies and chapters being closed. But at least one chapter, Epsilon-Nu at the University of Southern Mississippi, was shut down by the school early this Fall for hazing (it is no longer included in the lists of active chapters and colonies on the Fraternity Website), and two colonies (Villanova and The College of New Jersey) have already closed. Some of our other colonies are on shaky footing and not likely to survive. Meanwhile, we are having a disappointingly slow start to the establishment of new colonies, with only two new colonies so far this Fall (happily, they are both recolonizations of presently dormant chapters, Alpha-Alpha at the University of Maryland and Epsilon-Rho at Kent State University) ... or three, if one includes the colony at the University of California at San Diego, which may have been established in the last Spring or in the Summer. So unless some new colonies have been established this Fall that have not been added to the aforesaid lists of active chapters and colonies, the Fraternity actually has FEWER chapters and colonies than we did at the beginning of the school year, or perhaps exactly the same number. There may still be a flurry of colonizations late this Fall, but 300 schools by 2009 Conclave is a pipe-dream, ESPECIALLY if active chapters like Georgia State are meanwhile also being closed.
If anyone reading this knows anything about the Georgia State situation, or about any other chapter or colony closures, or even any new colonizations, please post about them here, because we sure aren't going to learn anything about such matters on the Website.
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