[john1082]

I think a chapter could do this study quite well in it's own market. Different schools have different demographics. For example, I know that there are a great many asian students at California (Mu Zeta) but far, far fewer at North Dakota (Epsilon-Zeta Zeta).

Given that we recruit on a local basis and that each Zeta has its own distinct demographic profile, then an individual Zeta could study the distribution for its own enlightenment. I don't know how much utility an analysis of the Berkeley demographics would have on the campus of Central Florida given the distinctly different student bodies (Cal is over 50% grad students but they don't join fraternities).

Chapters must choose what works for them. They must determine which men share our values. They must choose men that get along with the Brothers in the chapter. They must find, for the rest of us, those men whom we would all choose to call Brother.

We have struck from our governing documents those words and phrases that would dictate race and religious belief. By vote of the General Assembly we directed that sexual orientation is not a bar to membership. We have stated, through these actions, that one's personality, ideals, and attainments are the things that we will examine and consider in our deliberations.

I agree that the demographics would be interesting, but I am gun-shy of conducting research that others could obtain and use to our detriment. That comes, perhaps, from being a white, straight, ROTC, guy, living in a frat house in Berkeley in the mid-seventies!

And I made my living as a statistician for Texas Instruments in the early eighties!