Echo Lifesaver
I have to echo Lifesaver's comments. Alumni have better things to do than get up close and personal with chapter operations. By and large, we detest house meetings. We don't want to get invovled in a chapter's bookkeeping.
Unfortunately, sometimes it is necessary because a chapter cannot, or will not, properly manage its affairs. If it is a question of expertise, that can be fixed. If it is a case of attitude, well, that can get fixed too, but not as pleasantly as teaching somebody how to do basic bookkeeping or accounting. The latter gets fixed with suspensions, alumni status, and charter revocation.
If an undergraduate chapter is making a sincere effort to do it right and keep their act clean, then a fair number of sins can be absolved. If the chapter doesn't care then the corrective measures are far more harsh.
At North Dakota it was a lack of corporate knowledge regarding how to operate properly. That got fixed within about 18 months and they've done a pretty good job since (this was in 1981). Towson State had a much less pleasant outcome.
Ignorance can be fixed - stupid is terminal.
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