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Well, we've got a fairly good setup at the moment. Nationals doesn't ever send anyone to look after us, and they never attempt to punish our transgressions...We pretty much ignore things like their pledge program and what not, so thats not too big a deal. This issue comes to the forefront most every year at convention/leadership conference, when we are REQUIRED to send so many people. Now that in itself isn't bad, except that we have to generally pay several hundred dollars for every person we send. However, when we get there, we often have to teach the classes. The last conference I went to was a east coast regional conference, in which I taught ALL the pledge training classes, our treasurer taught the large majority of the financial sessions, and our rush chairmen (we have 2) led the "recruitment" sessions. I just find it pretty unnerving that our nationals will go against what we do all year, by promoting diversity, anti-"hazing" and making our fraternity more acceptable to people from all walks of life. However, come convention time, the chapters nationals hate all year are suddenly put up on a pedestal, simply because we actually have large memberships, large operating budgets, etc...
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