[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Firehouse
I enjoyed reading your very interesting comments. You said you heard about some 'top tier' fraternities being kicked out, then returning years later to find that their place in the social order had changed. That certainly sounds reasonbable, but there's actually a rush theory that says the reverse is more often true. It has to be an established system, but here's what happens most often: a chapter will die out or get kicked off, wait their time and then re-colonize, after which the chapter re-establishes itself in it's old place in the heirarchy! I know it doesn't make sense, but that's what happens very often. I know fraternities gone for two, five, even ten years on strong fraternity campuses, that come back and almost overnight re-establish themselves in the same tier they occupied before. Mayeb it has to do with housing (assuming they keep their old home). Maybe it has to do with the expectations of the alumni, or the leadership of the national. I cannot imagine, say, SAE at Alabama leaving then coming back as anything less that what they always have been.

It has everything to do with housing and alumni support, and nothing to do with "rush theory"