[Ithakappasig]

Sad but I've heard it before and not just at NKU. I am glad that the SEC (governing body) or the recruitment teams attempted to expand there, just saddened by the way things apparently were handled it or not handled. Never know with these things.

With that situation I would have done everything possible to keep them. Integrating a group with the alumni and the best brothers regionally and nationally from the outset is so important. (Sometimes the best brothers to link up with a colony are not those at the closest chapter.)

It is also important to find out honestly what the obstacles are, (maybe some guys don't get along, maybe there is a money issue, trouble setting up housing, maybe they need a good recruitment plan and some help with websites, etc.) Normally it is small things that the fraternity can easily get help with, even if it is helping the guys by sending some fund raising ideas, or some information how to prepare to set up housing.

If we say what we really are it is definitely something that should be valued and strengthened. There are some things that Kappa Sig is recovering from after a decade old power struggle but it is still a really great fraternity with a great history. I don't know why some people have a single minded obsession with numbers like some cheap Amway, pyramid-marketing version of a fraternity. I also don't know about the accuracy of some of the claims. "Most preferred"? We don't have the fastest increase of brothers or chapters whether new or reopening; nor are we the largest fraternity. I think most Kappa Sigs would like to see more value given to the brothers considering the amount of money brothers give over. What fraternity man wouldn't. "Most beneficial", not as catchy perhaps but more meaningful.

These issues are in clearly in front of the membership so we should see things get better and return to where they once were. New chapters with good people can only speed that process along.