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I don't think you can point to ALL of those closings simply being the easy route...some yes, but definitely not all.
I know that in a lot of cases, the alumni make the call on whether to close a chapter or go through a reorg but keep the chapter open. In some cases the financial burden is simply too much for alumni to muster and it is easier to shut down and then recolonize later. I know that our alumni are still very heavily in debt from them keeping my chapter at Nebraska open in the mid 90's after expelling 80% of the chapter. They kept the chapter house open, they made up for the lack of money just about every where when we had only 14 members. I'm thankful for that, and b/c of that I will be willing to make a similar sacrifice if asked to in the future, but not all alumni associations can/will do such a thing.
I do agree that some chapters probably did deserve to be "saved" but as we've already shown on this board there is a very dichotomous set of expectations of what is the GF intruding and what isnt'.
I mean, if you're a chapter that is struggling and you're already bitching about MOP, or the GF making demands of you like ending hazing, how open are you going to be to the GF if they come in a do something as minor as run a recruitment workshop?
I will say that one alternative, that is perhaps much more viable, is asking for help from other chapters. This would be particularly possible in areas where there are clusters of chapters like southern Cal, or Ohio.
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