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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
We have all of those things (lifetime benefits, good programs, and a magazine), and we're local. Being national doesn't automatically make everything sparkly and wonderful. Go wherever your heart tells you to go, even if it is local.
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Ditto
Also, as the president of an local fraternity let me give you one piece of advice, it's actually part of a speech I gave to my actives tonight during our meeting, to give it context basically some of our newest members have been droping the ball lately and not following through on thier responsabilities and basically I said "I'm really disappointed in you right now, when you pledge you become my 'brother' but you aren't really my Brother until your there putting in the work right along side me as equals. I may be the president but I put in more work then you understand and my Brothers show up and work with me and get things done, those of you who just show up for the parties or the girls are my brothers in name only."
So a piece of advice, if you aren't willing to put in the work and be down to ride, don't even waste your time because you won't get anything from joining a fraternity and they won't get anything from you. My best friend from high school joined SAE at CSU Fullerton, was active for a semester after he was initiated and then basically dropped it because he was only doing it to get into the parties for free and he had made his friends while he was active and didn't feel he wanted to be part of the fraternity anymore. It really made me sad to hear him say this because I love my Brothers more then anything and it would be real easy to put myself in the shoes of the people in his chapter that were working really hard to make things go well. I honestly think they wasted his time by pledging/initiating him and that he wasted 3 + 1/2 years of his life by not taking full advantage of the opportunities offered by being an active brother.