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I for one am extremely pro-expansion. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I have gotten to know brother B. Hume Morris extremely well over these past few years. For those of you who don't know who he is, Hume serves as the current GF Archivist, and is a former GF General Secretary and President. You will not find someone with a better resume in this fraternity.
He is an ardent expansionist. The reasoning for this is extremely simple. Beta Theta Pi is the best, right? We have more to offer than any other fraternity, right? We are leaders in the fraternity world, the business world, and the political world, right? So why wouldn't any college want us? And by affiliation, why wouldn't we want to get the best men at each and every college. You want to talk about disturbing figures, I'll throw some at you.
Most people who have travelled around the country will tell you flat out, the South is where fraternities are really fraternities. I'm talking big houses, big chapters, tailgates, parties, the works. Let's look at Beta's numbers throughout the South, shall we?
Louisiana: 0 chapters open, 3 closed
Arkansas: 0 chapters ever opened
Mississippi: 1 chapter ever opened
Tennessee: 5 chapters open (one virtually dead) 1 chapter closed
Alabama: 2 chapters open, 1 closed
Georgia: 3 chapters open, 1 closed
South Carolina: 2 chapters open (one about to close), 1 closed
North Carolina: 3 open, 1 closed
Virginia: 3 open, 7 closed
Seem like the marks of a champion to you? They certainly don't to me. Why aren't we opening chapters faster? Why aren't we doing more to help the chapters we have now? Most chapters aren't being helped right now because the GF is so self-righteous with their leadership programs, and their scholarships, and their MOP crap that they have forgotten the true nature of being a fraternity. We all know that rush is a pillar of being in a fraternity, so why aren't we doing a better job rushing American Colleges and Universities?
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