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Originally Posted by john1082
Tom, I disagree that it is always a choice. Alaska was a non-starter from the beginning. Good guys, but a commuter school with virtually no greek or on-campus life and a location too far away from anywhere else or anybody else. Those guys were dancing as fast as they could but the conditions just were not there for a successful chapter.
Other chapters are closed because of a change in University policy; I recall one up north, perhaps in Maine, that closed in response to a school dictate that they go coed. Clearly not a 'decision' of the undergrads in that case.
It isn't always a case of chapter culpability.
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John, I agree most whole heartedly with you on Alaska. They almost certainly did not ahve a prayer of making it because of the circumstances you mentioned.
I never ment that each time it is the chapters fault.
Alfred Un. in N Y disbanneded all GLOs several years back because of a death in a local, which the LXA chapter was doing very well.
But in most cases, it is the chapters fault for being closed whether it be hazing, low membership, or owing money being the big three.
I think that the plan by IHQ from what I understand is to recharter and break new ground is very worth while.
I am sure all of us would like to see both recharters and new colonies. I know of several schooks in the Kansas, Missouri states I would love to see opened or reopened.