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You may think it is "bs", but many fraternities will have alumns step in and do membership reviews if their headquarters/national/ chapter advisors feel that there are problems and issues that are effecting the chapter. I was involved with a membership review of my own chapter 5 years after I graduated. I was one of 6 alumns who interviewed each member about their attitudes and goals for the chapter. The alumni stepped in due to problems that were growing and threatened to destroy the chapter. If the alumns step in for a review it is usually a pre-emptive strike to ensure that the chapter does not lose its charter. It also scares the hell out of the undergrads. It helps them to refocus on the goals of the chapter, the beliefs involved in our rituals and creeds, etc. I know that later in the year, 2 different members who were put on probation status for a semester to straighten up, thanked me personally for helping them get on the right track. I will also tell you that we kicked 2 other members out (although we did not go full out and revoked their membership with headquarters). It was an easy/not easy decision. Not easy because I hated seeing 2 brothers banished from chapter membership. Easy because both made it clear that they would not change their ways nor were they taking aspects of the fraternity as seriously as they should have.