I woke up this morning fully prepared to support the TBI, now I'm not as sure. It's hard to believe this initiative has been in the works for two years and has been kept such a secret. Just one month ago (July 3, 2007) I wrote the following in an email to a brother who was planning on going to Memphis. "I'd like to know more about this program. Is there any way you can summarize it for us alumni who won't be able to be there? I really have no clue what it's about. And, is it for alumni too, or just actives?" He wrote back with as much vagueness as in Biff's article in the C&C and did not answer my final question.
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Originally Posted by justaflaneur
We have 9,800 undergrads we have to touch before we roll it out to the rest of our alumni membership.
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I question the wisdom of a bottom-up approach as opposed to a top-down approach, missing the opportunity to elicit the support of approximately 100,000 living alumni who now feel (except for a privileged few) that they are being left in the dust.
A "we'll get to you guys later" attitude was a very poor choice, but I guess it's too late now. Maybe it's too late for us anyway.
Now whenever I ask anyone if the True Brother Initiative applies to alumni, they say, "Sure it does!" They just don't say how.