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I think it's pretty bunk that SigEp or any other General fraternity (International/headquarters or whatever other designation) just puts the chapter "on notice" of possible closure.
I think that there should be more done to actually help out the chapter if they aren't meeting expectations so much that people are considering closing the chapter. At least give them the tools to meet expectations. Perhaps this is how it is for SigEp, but it doesnt' come across like that from the post, or what GeekyPenguin mentioned about the SigEps on her campus.
I guess I just think that it's never a good thing for a chapter to close unless there are just irreversable problems like extreme hazing or rampant use of hard drugs. I would think that it would be easier to rebuild and repair a chapter keeping it open and reorganizing it than to shut it down completely.
Further I just don't think that it is encouraging of a fraternal bond to close a chapter without offering some assistance to the brothers in that chapter, or at least something more than being put "on notice."
Obviously there are going to be arguements about cutting 'dead weight' in order to advance, but in the end that's not really doing anything to improve the sitauation of the brothers (who apparently are the problem) losing their chapter...nor does it make them better SigEps or XYZ's.
(sorry to keep using SigEp as the example, just kept that going since the orignal post related to SigEp.)
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