Thread: Committees?
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Old 01-07-2012, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil View Post
Exactly. There are local/regional/district and national/international bodies for a reason.

Even contacting brothers at other chapters makes more sense than coming to Greekchat and asking random Greeks.
This, a thousand times this.

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Originally Posted by Gusteau View Post
As an aside, I wonder if the committee system has faded to a bygone error. With email, texting, and being constantly plugged in to social media, do our undergraduate chapter need committees to engage their members and operate effectively? I'm not saying this is better, just curious if this is the reality in our chapters.
It sounds like you may be confusing committee meetings with a committee structure -- how committees take care of business rather than the need for them at all.

In a parliamentary procedure sense, committees exist to keep the entire body from having to discuss everything in detail. It's the committees' to job to get down into the details -- to do the main work -- and make recommendations to the full body so that the full body can work efficiently. Or, if the full body has authorized it, to carry out functions on behalf of the full body.

How often committees need to meet and how much they need to to do will vary according to the chapter's needs and the committee's responsibilities. As others have suggested, use your fraternity's resources to help you figure out what your fraternity expects and what you could or should be doing.
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