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Originally Posted by kddani
Seriously. I've rarely heard of a fraternity closing for low numbers. There were a number of them on my campus (NIC, not locals) with as little as a half dozen members. A sorority would never stay open with that few members.
Every time you turn around there's another post in the Risk Management forum about some fraternity being suspended or closing due to Risk Management issues. I'm sure they're out there- but I can't think of a single example of one closing for low numbers.
Sounds like someone's turning a blind eye to the true problems and looking for a way to blame the economy. That's just burying your head in the sand. Not that I don't think the economy will have some effect on numbers overall, but not to this degree.
Fraternities that are closing chapters are doing so overwhelmingly due to risk management issues.
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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
It seems to me that the majority of fraternity chapters are closing to due to risk management issues, not low numbers.
I think an inability to manage risks and such would be more likely to be the demise of a fraternity chapter than numbers would.
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Agreed. In the more than a decade that I've been an SAE, I can only think of one example of one of our chapters being closed due to low numbers. In every other case I've ever heard of, it was risk management.