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Originally posted by Erik P Conard
My comment about Platteville being primitive, Greek-wise: I may
have been hasty; there've been a potful of locals and literary societies, many of them laughable, some good, and many in between. But if they were great, over-all, what happened to them
as few are left?
Please ignore the comment, though, as I did not intend to offend any particular person or school; I could have used Slippery Rock, Clarion, Portland, Kansas Wesleyan, or a slew of others.
And, my visits to those places were all too brief, just to
make quick assessments and fill out reports.
Great changes often resulted after a local has gone 'national.'
Tremendous transformations, mostly good.
But my over-all point is that Wisconsin will come back, and the
hike in tuition certainly did not enhance out of state recruitment.
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In the case of Beloit, an old WI school (though private so perhaps slightly different), a number of National orgs did not change their membership policies in the 1970s quick enough for the school administration. So the school clamped down, bought all the old houses and turned them into campus buildings and a 100 + year old tradition simmered down pretty quickly. As you know once the chapter is closed, it is hard to get it open again and the campus has been cautious about letting a local even open the campus up for extention as they are ambivilent about NPC. Though from what I understand, one of the current locals has gotten the campus open for extention. The school culture doesn't seem to support a resurgence (at this point) of strong National orgs. Many have tried, most recently Beta, most have left. What I'm saying is that National might create the illusion of accountability, but in the day to day aspects locals and nationals are not all that different.
http://www.beloit.edu/~libhome/Archi...oit/greek.html