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Originally Posted by Shane Foley
The reason the RLC were costly--They were in expensive hotels. While HQ tried to reduce the costs, expensive rooms and meals add up. Having more local conferences have more flexibility as people can priceline rooms and/or stack a lot of people in a room. College students (especially those from the same chapter) don't need fancy accomodations.
Another option that was tried 5 years ago were one-day gatherings organized by the ELCs at a chapter. It was designed for fewer chapters and a more relaxed format and FREE. There were advantages and disadvantages to those gatherings. The purpose was to provide more opportunities for contacts with brothers from other chapters.
Shane
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Shane, this sounds like it's got great potential. I wish we could start doing this again. The Brothers at STLCOP (and the students at STLCOP in general) are traditionally from rural Missouri and Illinois. While we are a very diverse chapter, and not necessarily fitting that mold, but many of us have never been to a traditional college/university atmosphere or most importantly, a real fraternity house.
If something like this were held at Mizzou, every chapter in MO, Kansas and Illinois are within striking distance of GK Zeta. It would allow us to have a short road trip over and experience some things we havent been exposed to before...and have a good time in a real fraternity house on a real college campus! I know that probably sounds pretty weak to some of you all, but STLCOP has 1000 students, zero fraternity houses (2 have houses, but one of them is off limits to non-members and the other is run down, in the ghetto, and problems surround it), and we are the only social/general Fraternity on campus -- so our fraternal experience is markedly different from what other Brothers have gone through...
Of course, a few of our guys have visited other chapters and houses...I haven't really had the luxury.
In ZAX,
Brandon
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