Boy, this will not be popular....
My chapter closed it's doors for a few years mostly due to numbers. By the time it was all said and done, there were only 9 active numbers. From my understanding, with is a very common solution.
Hazing is also a semi-common reason for an organization to be suspended. If it does not make the newspapers, usually not many people will know the true reason due it the idea of not wanting to "air dirty laundry." If other people do not need to know why, they won't.
Only if someone in a GLO, and I assume a BGLO, does something extremely horrible will a National go in and close a house. There is only one example that I know of in which this happened. After a party, a guy and his girlfriend went up to his room at the chapter house to go to sleep. While he was passed out, another "brother" entered this room and raped the girlfriend. Sad but true. That house no longer exists on that campus.
Now, for smaller infractions, the National will come in and "clear house." I've seen this happen three different times. The national will go through the members of said house including with an interview and if they see something they don't like they are gone. I don't know if they are given alumni status then told not to come around or what. One house the reason why it happened was due to drugs. We think that the only reason why the house was not closed was because it was one of the first chapters for this fraternity. When the national was finished, only abour a quarter of the brotherhood was still around...
I hope this will answer our question a little bit.
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Scott A. Marley
Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity
Beta Beta Chapter
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