[DolphinChicaDDD]

Ok, maybe I should have quantified this more.

The last time we had a smaller org on campus, they were handed the books, the bylaws, etc and basically told them to go with it. They rarely had a field consultant or anyone from EO come to campus.

When we became Tri Delta, we had a stantionary field consultant with us the semester we were a colony, and a FC last semester. We will also be having a FC more often then other chapters next semester as well. Its not so much of a 'lets check to make sure you're not circling girl's fat' as 'lets check to make sure everything is running according to plan, everything is being done the Tri Delta way, etc.' We had an issue with slating this year, and even though it was 10pm on a Tuesday night, we were still able to get in touch with the right people at Exectutive Office to have our issue sorted out. Tri Delta's National President has been to my campus at least 4 times, and countless other members of either the E-board or EO have come countless other times.

I know ZTA also provided stationary field consultants when that chapter first expanded.

As pointed out earlier, some org's chapters have not seen a field consultant in years. It happend with the last group that went off campus; no one was around to answer their questions, the resources weren't avaiable, and the organization fell apart. Granted, yes it has to do with the girls, but it also had to do with this group of girls was not given the guidence they needed. This is the reason my school's administration was against trying another smaller org.

I'm not saying larger org's do not have their share of problems either. But to use Tri Delta again, a chapter just had their charter pulled because of Risk Management. Our field consultant had to investigate a possible instantance of hazing on another college around mine (and it was a case of study hours as hazing; not a severe we're beating girls up hazing possibility).

I'm stating my college, and probably other colleges, would rather have an org who has the resources to pull a charter before something happens then to have an org who fell apart because of lack of resources to know when there might be a problem.