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There are many advantages to being a smaller chapter. I don't think that being a smaller chapter is always a bad thing. You may have half the number of members as the next organization, but there are pros and cons to everything. I have friends that go to other schools and belong to organizations that have 100, 150 and sometimes more members. One of my friends tells me that he can never remember all the guys, he forgets names and stuff, and I could never imagine trying to get to know that many guys on a personal level. I thought it was difficult when our chapter was at almost 70 members. We have now declined drastically due to this and that politics, but mostly because we began a process of weeding out those that weren't helping the org, we'll call them the "wasssssssup brothers." Needless to say, after all the petty bickering and shat that still goes on, I think we are closer than ever before, and with the uncertain future ahead of us, I think we are ready to make probably one of the biggest decisions in the history of our org; going national.
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