Actually, you have to do it by hand. Grab the bracket QUOTE=stuff close bracket stuff at the beginning and duplicate it at the beginning of each piece, and put the bracket slash QUOTE close BRACKET stuff at the end.

Yup. Sectional boundaries require RD assent as well. They only get to vote when Dawn decides (or at least their vote only means something...). The plan is to split section 83? Hmm. I guess Richmond, South and East for one and everything north (and west?) of that for the other.

We'll see. The healthy number of Bachelor's degrees is a start. The state has to do *something*, in another 10 years, a third of the population of Virginia is going be in DC suburbs.

Other than Christendom (which is way too small), what else religious have you seen in NoVa?


Two conferences back to back?

Randy

*applause* Good call back in '95, good call today.

I second that notion.

Yeah, I'm an anomaly on here....student at a 2 year school that didn't have a chapter and became an extension brother at a 4 year school (extension membership no longer exists and I think I'm partially the reason!):rolleyes:

[quote=naraht;1599025]Actually, you have to do it by hand. Grab the bracket QUOTE=stuff close bracket stuff at the beginning and duplicate it at the beginning of each piece, and put the bracket slash QUOTE close BRACKET stuff at the end.

OK....thank goodness for CTRL-C, CTRL-V!! LOL



I'm not even sure how it's going to be. Dawn drew it for us at a meeting, but I'm geographically challenged, so most talk of where schools are in relation to others in their chapters is totally lost on me!!



Honestly, I'm not holding my breath. This is an issue I faced 20 years ago when I was first looking at colleges to attend after high school. The problem around here is land costs. To have a viable school, you have to offer all the things a more established school offers, and a major component of that is student housing. Kids want the "college experience" and without dorms, they don't feel they get that. At least that's what my students told me when I was working in a high school. Also, they want the experience AWAY from mom and dad.......which is why kids who wind up at GMU that are from this area end up hating it.....they wind up living at home and commuting. But as for ODU making it as a campus in Loudon County, I haven't looked at it recently, but I don't think they have dorms yet. And getting a kid to look at a school without a long history? It's parental pressure that keeps them away from the newer schools......parents don't think the degree means as much from one as it does from a place like UVa or William and Mary. Same with some of the smaller, liberal arts colleges.


Eastern Mennonite is one....it's near JMU. Liberty is another. Most of the schools in VA are 1) no where near NOVA and 2) way too small. Also, a fair number of them are still single sex - Hollins (all women undergrad, co-ed grad), Hampden-Sydney (all male), etc.....





Yeah....and the second one cuts it really close to Pesach, so I might not be able to go anyway.....way too many preparations with this house and getting up to NY for the holiday. It was so much easier to kasher a one floor condo that it is a multi split level house!!!

I was at the convention in which extension membership was abolished and I voted to keep it.

Awww...and here, I was thinking that the brothers HATED people like me. From my understanding of what extension membership was intended to do - it was hoped that those who became extension brothers would then take what they learned about the fraternity back to their home campus and establish a chapter. Then, there were EB's like me, who rushed/pledged/initiated into a chapter and then went on to another school where there was already a chapter.

I was also told that the reason it was voted out was more of an insurance issue than anything else. People becoming part of student groups (who were not students at the school) were not covered under the school's insurance policy. Meaning, if something were to happen, the non-student brother would not be covered and the school would be liable.

To be honest, two semesters later, I was told by an "advisor" to the chapter I affiliated with that I wasn't a brother, I had never been a brother, and that I needed to give her my badge, my membership card and my shingle, along with anything I had with A Phi O letters on it. Needless to say, I believed her, and for 12 years, I was unaffiliated with the fraternity and lost a long time with it.

But that's neither here nor there.......meaning, I don't know why extension membership was abolished, but I'm glad I came in before it went away....otherwise, I'd be having this conversation in my mind.....and that's just scary!! LOL

Of those, I think I've heard of efforts over the last decade to try at Eastern Mennonite and Hampden-Sydney. I thought Liberty was impossible, but then I thought Regent was as well...




Lots more place for Chametz to hide!

Grrrrr. Where can we send the Bonk-o-gram?

Randy

Aren't you sweet? :)

I don't know the answer to that....when the whole thing happened, I was in Georgia, but I don't know where she is now. I wish I'd had someone who could have told me that it took a vote of the ENTIRE National Convention to rescind a brother's membership. Then I wouldn't have wasted all these years, being angry over what happened.

But, for the most part, I'm past it now........except I'd really like to know what made her do it. What did she stand to gain by hurting me? I don't know the answer, nor do I know what I'd gain by finding out, but I'm curious.

On the plus side, finding out that I was still a brother made me more determined than ever to give the fraternity my energy and time.......to make up for lost time. :D:D

I'm in an petitionig group and we probably getting our chapter letters this semester i'm so happy