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Originally posted by madmax
You should look in the mirror. How come some nationals are building new HQ buildings when their numbers are down, revenues are down and their costs are up?
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Max,
If you're talking about the new Delt International Headquarters, do your homework before you open your mouth. The building was purchased with alumni donations. Our overall membership numbers have been increasing, even while our number of chapters has decreased because we have closed the bad ones. We've done it by colonizing smaller school with higher academic standards, and recolonizing at schools that hold us to high standards before they let us back on campus. And our Foundation just finished a $9.5 million fund raising effort from our Alumni. Last I heard, our alumni giving was tops in the NIC.
Now, read the posts again.
I didn't say you can average and then give the good chapters more. I said that if Nationals didn't average, the bad chapters rates would be so high they couldn't exist. When I said that savings would be passed on, it was in a different paragraph, addressing a different issue -- whether Nationals would pass savings back if costs went down.
Let's remember context, OK?
LXAAlum,
Be my guest! I'm really weary of people who haven't had enough life experience to understand how it works.
I wish the hell I didn't feel compelled to comment on these kinds of things, but I think it's these attitudes and misunderstandings that will kill the fraternity system in the long run if they don't wake up.
Finally, you're absolutely right about having some fun and doing some dumb things. But times were a whole lot different then, as you allude, and the harsh spotlight of reality wasn't hitting us right in the face.