[Kevin]

When I signed up and paid my initiate fee, I was told that it included a lifetime subscription to our magazine, "The Delta."

It's great to have the multimedia-enhanced version, but really, nothing replaces seeing it in print. It's a great thing to have on my coffee table. It's a good reminder of my lifelong commitment. I do realize that the fraternity has a significant financial burden here, but really, a newsletter is absolutely vital to a cohesive and lucrative alumni operation. Seeing it in some tangible form is something I feel is vital.

I'd be strongly against moving to an electronic-only medium. This is one of those expenses which I don't think we can afford not to have. Tom, while the overall cost of 250,000 members may seem pretty daunting, keep in mind that is 250,000 members who *could* be giving money. Even a very small amount (say, $10/month/member) could be absolutely huge to the national fraternity.

Boodle, for $5.00/month for local, I have no idea how y'all operate. It doesn't seem to me that you'd have much of that "power of the purse strings" with such a small amount flowing into the coffers. That's barely enough to fund a newsletter!

Now, $5/month would be more like it. See if you can't find something like Paypal to direct-debit it from donors' checking accounts on a monthly basis. To be more than a social, twice-a-year meeting where we all get together and argue about what college kids should be doing, we need money. It's a lot easier to tell an active chapter, "Do this and you get x$" than it is to say "Do this."