[honeychile]

Also, there are chapters which, for some reason or another, the Powers That Be have decided that they will keep that chapter open at almost any cost. One of them was my own chapter. Its numbers have been up and down for years, but in the past 10 years, they have become a major force! When they won Alpha Delta Pi's most honored award, The Maxine Blake Chapter Excellence Award (aka The Golden Lion), the officers affectionately referred to it as "The Little Chapter That Could". It's been the largest chapter on campus for a while now - but it's because they became the best COB chapter I've ever seen, and they wanted it badly enough.