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thing is, MOST of the chapters that were shut down were shut down for a reason... sometimes the chapter lost interest in recruiting, sometimes it just fell on hard times and couldn't pay the bills, and sometimes they were doing bad things and in that case it's far better to shut them down then to keep them around... I'm sure if you've been around for a while you've heard of all kinds of dumb things chapters have done and got shut down after.
we flat out couldn't keep that many chapters since as of now we don't have the infastructure to maintain them. We are working on it, but it's going to take some time, especially since as a whole, we don't have the money or want to be paying alot more, so we're moving to a largely volunteer structure, with alot more of the overall responsibilities going to the alumni as far as direct chapter support, so hopefully with the new infastructure, we can maintain more chapters than we can with say 3 guys looking out for the mississippi and west, and 6 guys looking out for the chapters east of it.
so it's amazing that we can maintain the chapters we do now with the money we've invested into it.
it's like they've always said, you don't work at IHQ for the money... those guys are making as big or bigger of a donation than most Tekes will in their lives.
So give it time, we're working to get more chapters goin, the new colonization method is really making some strong chapters from the very beginning too, so we are moving in the right direction...
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