[Blueknowledge]

(This post was copied from the Phi Beta Sigma board. What are your thoughts on undergraduate chapters?)


Let’s face it brothers, for every undergraduate chapter that is functioning at any level of productivity, there are 5 that have folded, floundered and are only tangentially connected to the broader fraternity. More importantly, the undergraduate brothers expose the fraternity to great financial risk with some of the activities that they engage in, under the so-called banner of "brotherhood-building." Isn’t it time to do away with undergraduate chapters? (Mind you, I pledged at the undergraduate level, and we spent most of our time bickering, planning parties and trying to “hit” everything we could get our hands on.) It wasn’t until I got to the graduate chapter level that I realized the fraternity was about the larger objective of uplifting our people.

Can our cause really “speed on its way” by having a bunch of 19 year olds representing us? Besides, the capital needed to carry out a productive and progressive policy agency just cannot be raised by undergrads.

Blueknowledge ‘93

Please, no bashing. Let’s have a serious discussion on this issue.