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a few thoughts
A few thoughts on the housing/going local issue.
At my college in Pennsylvania there are now only 6 on campus fraternities, the rest are "off campus" which there are now 8 off campus, all are considered local or underground to some degree.
Several of our own alumni have begun questioning the value of the college institution to help the chapter anymore at this point. Besides being where the students come to college at- they are more of an administration nightmare to deal with with little or no benefit to staying close with except to keep out charter from our national office in Indianapolis.
Alot of it stems from the college's lack of movement to accept or mainstream the massive amount of illegal rush and initiations with freshmen that have been occuring for over a decade now with a moajority of the on campus greeks and all of the off campus greeks (taking first semester freshmen) once that level of honesty and good faith is gone alot of the dealings with the host institution go out the door (at least in an honest fashion)
And most of the housing has been eliminated, except in an off campus developer who has been in mulitple lawsuits with the town, school and even the IRS to keep our privately built greek off campus neighborhood open to Greeks. We receive no interference from this housing arrangement except from the occasional state police patrol.
My attitude from this is that stay at arms length from the college you deal with if you can, because the hand that fed you in the 80's or 90's seems to want to tear you apart now, one of our neighbor chapters of our fraternity at a private college is now living under the heel of the host institution after they bought all the greek housing, and are now subject to random searches. This seems like prison to me.
Anway- get money and get away and independent from the noose of the college control, but maintain some kind of semi positive relationship with them.
Im just leery
Jason
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