[DeltAlum]

On the other hand, many of the houses in Boulder have been out of control in the past. Our chapter there was closed for the third (and very likely final) time a few years ago due to alcohol, drugs and destruction of chapter property, and even the alumni of that chapter don't want to recolonize.

Nothing is ever a one way street, though. The university has been fighting the "party school" attitude for years, and at one time adopted a policy of "hands off" the Greek organizations in the hopes that if they gave us enough rope, we would hang ourselves.

That nearly happened, and when the Gordy Bailey death occurred last year, it appears the university realized that it could not duck liability lawsuits either way -- and that's when the new regulations were drafted.

In the end, though, the fact is that the IFC now has much higher costs to assume because of the break from the university. Of course, those are passed on to the individual members in the long run.

ETA

Following posted while I wrote the above:

"Dues to the IFC, or dues to their national HQs? Or their local dues?

And as far as using uni facilities, for what? Can't they have meetings in their houses?"

The IFC has higher expenses because of hiring the advocate mentioned above, and probably must rent space for rush and possibly IFC meetings -- although I don't know why the latter couldn't be moved from house to house for meetings. It's touch for a large IFC not to have space to store paperwork, etc. They could probably rent space in other than university buildings -- but there would probably be a higher cost doing that.