[Bilski]

I am relieved to offer a correction to your earlier post, John.

The Zeta Sigma chapter (Louisville) did not in fact get closed. Yet, anyway. The motion to place us on inactive status was defeated and a new motion sending us back to the Grand High Zeta for review was passed.

The meeting date has not been set for this hearing but you can be sure we're busting our asses to find a way to convince the GHZ we're worth keeping open.

And Lenoxx, you're right. We did receive the Phoenix award about 2 or 3 years before I joined. Since then though we had a rather cataclysmic event in 2005 that axed or caused to drop out over 60% of our membership, including most brothers with experience recruiting and running the fraternity. That pretty much left the chapter in charge of newly initiated members like myself with no real experience with running or recruiting for a campus organization.

Since then we've had no luck in recruitment. We have everything else going for us: no debt, a fully paid house (in by far much better condition than all the other fraternity houses on Greek Row) owned by our local alumni, a more helpful Housing Corporation of late, and a good GPA on campus. It's just been hell getting and keeping members. That's why we sent 3 guys to GA this year and hoped they could convince Nationals to send us a recruitment team. Instead the standards committee recommended we be closed indefinitely. Thank God most of the GA disagreed.