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I know that on my campus chatper "reputations" lingered for a long time. We had several fraternities (PKA, ATO) and sororities (KKG, AGD, AZD) close just before I started and their reputations lingered on campus throughout my 4 years there.
All of the fraternities closed because of risk management issues, therefore socially they remained well thought of- I remember older sisters in my chapter speaking of them fondly & lamenting that we lost "good" houses to be have mixers with & be matched up w/ for Greek Week & Homecoming. KKG closed because of risk management issues & had been a top chapter. This reputation also lingered- they rented & eventually sold their house to KAT- allowing that chapter to take a bit of the KKG aura.
All of the fraternities closed because of risk management issues. While I was on campus PKA successfully re-colonized & shortly after I graduated ATO did the same. Both re-colonized chapters came back onto campus very strong because of their old reputations- their legends had lived on if you would. Other fraternities colonized at Maryland, but never reached the status of ATO & PKA. While I was on campus a few fraternities closed always from risk management issues, some of them have come back since then as well.
I don't know if it's campus or chapter policy, but if a chapter closed because of RM issues they could not try to come back for 4-5 years until all of the old members were off campus.
AGD & AZD closed because of numbers and this information lingered as well. AZD's (lovely) house still sits empty (they had rented it for a year to PKA during their re-colonization, but PKA could not have parties there, they still had pink carpet, etc.)
Maybe my campus has a very strong collective memory of chapters, but I think it would be very tough for a chapter to completely/immediately re-org/re-colonize there- espeically with deferred rush. According to Wikipedia ADPi closed 1985 and recolonized 1986- ADPi got AGD's house after AGD folded and I am sure that this helped them.
what I am saying is I don't know how successful an immediate re-org/re-colonization effort could be? How could nationals sweep in and re-program how everyone on campus thinks of a chapter?
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