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As alumni, we are picky, prissy, pissy, crotchety, have PMS, and expect more than we deserve. But we do write quite a few checks and donate a lot of our time. So I think HQ owes us a little more than we got.
"Without the undergraduates we will become nothing."
If it was back in 2000 or 2001, I would have agreed with you. Gamma Zeta was a very close chapter based on friendship and brotherhood. Since we disbanded some years ago, I find the friendships that have lasted to be stronger than ever. Gamma Zeta Chapter may not have undergraduates right now, but what we have is certainly not "nothing".
So from that perspective, without an undergraduate chapter to nourish and nurture, the only relationships that we have left from Gamma Zeta is between us alumni. When HQ does something that even hints at excluding alumni, or treats us as 2nd class brothers, or less important than another part of our fraternity, it is saying that what we have left of Gamma Zeta is not important, that it doesn't matter, that LXA is actually really only about the undergraduate community.
I've heard over and over and over about Lambda Chi Alpha "being for life." Is it really? I know that my friendships forged at Gamma Zeta are for life. Our bond between brothers from the chapter is for life, but everyday I feel that the total bond between all brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha is weakening.
"It is great that we as alumni can come together and talk about Lambda Chi, but if that was all we wanted we could just be Elks and it wouldn't make a difference."
Maybe the remaining 1,500 brothers of Gamma Zeta are just "Elks". Right now, all we can really do is come together and talk about Lambda Chi. Sure we like to drink, have fun, joke around, but I never thought that we were anything but Lambda Chi Alpha's....maybe I was wrong.
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