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AEPhiSierra,

I feel you on lack of people. My chapter has been operating with 17 active brothers since graduation last spring. (We're initiating 10 this weekend)

We found that making too many chairs is a good way to make everyone unavailable to help each other. By having the Exec VP's take direct control over the areas that dont have much activity going on regularly, and just having them assign temporary committees as needed, works best. This system is a lot more informal, and it gives everyone a chance to fill a spot as their schedules permit.

As what was said in another post about having no time for a lot of chapter roles, we feel that here too. We require every brother to serve in at least one other campus organization (Non-Greek). I'm a second year Army ROTC cadet, and the Corps takes a lot of my time, but with our system, I am able to farm-out my work to others as necessary, and take on things I have time for.

For example, I am not under our VP of Programs, but I had time to plan our Fall Semester Parent's Dinner (and he needed the help), so I took that on top of my Rush and Fundraiser responsibilities.

Our system is a lot more streamlined than others I have seen posted here. I'm not sure if it is necessarily better, but it definately works well for us.

(It also lets everyone with Exec Board aspirations to do work under all the VP's to find out which postiion they would want to run for)