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Originally Posted by Ottor 246
I hate to be the naysayer, but I can see a whole host of problems developing here. For example: - What happens if two chapters have a house together and one of the chapters folds?
- If one chpater has a risk management issue, how do you keep it from spilling over into the other chapter?
- How do you maintain individual identity and keep the combined group from morphing into one "super chapter."
- What happens when one chapter is having homecoming and the other is having pre-I week?
It seems to me that the only way it could possibly work out would be if one chapter owned or leased the house, and allowed individual brothers from a nearby chapter to lease rooms in order to fill the house. I can't see two chapters using the same house as their Chapter House working out very well.
Just my 2 cents.
Mark |
Tom Earp asked me about this in a phone call today, and the above is the exact thing I posed to him.
Even if both chapters have similar tones and management styles, those could change over time. And it is asking a lot to expect one chapter to take on some degree of "ownership" of the inherent risks of another.
The only way this works is if one chapter owns the house and makes all the decisions- and members of the other chapter rent units and take care to conduct themselves in the same manner as the dominant chapter.