I will show deference to my Omega brother becuase he is old, uh, I mean becuase he is older and wiser than me. (Just jokes man). But on the real, you touch upon a point. If the only reason that a person joins is for the bonding and the spirit that is felt on Undergrad level, then what is the purpose? Hell I got that on the grad level. If we look at it from that standpoint, then why not just abolish the grad chapter, and let it only be an undergrad thing.
So I am a Kappa, Omega, Sigma, Alpha, Iota in udergrad, but when I graduate, I am just another brother. I really can't get with that. I will agree with you though on the politics of the grad chapter. Yeah, in many respects it is like a buisness. I trully hate this aspect of it, and I actually hold office in my chapter. While I hate the politics, I know that we all should have a larger purpose in mind, and that is the well being of our frat first, and then that of our chapter. While I got mad luv for my chapter, and will throw blows in the name of my chapter, I know that first and foremost, I joined Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
I don't knock a brother who is not in a chapter if he is doing something positive to uphold the principles of our frat, but one thing that I do hate is when someone uses the excuse of politics, or I don't like them brothers, or I ain't got time. Excuses are tools of incompetence, blah, blah, blah, you know the rest.
Now right after college, allot of brothers are trying to get themselves together, and do their thing, kool, but after a certain period, you really need to be active in some fashion. Some of the best brothers I know, aren't active in a chapter, but are still working in the kommunity, and I gotta respect that.
Now my frat, as I believe all the others could not exist without the grad chapters, becuase that is where the leadership is drawn from, and that is where most of the financial backbone comes from. We also couldn't exist without the undergrad, becuase most of our members come in through the undergrad. So witout each of the two working together, all frats would perish. If we could get half of the membership to be active and financial, my god, imagine what a force all of our organizations could weild.
I want all frats and sorror. to be up and running when my kids (when I find an SGRho to marry me, I will have some), get to college and they have the opportunity to join. Of course if my son goes anything but KAPsi, I will dissown him, beat him, and feed him to the dogs, but you get the picture.
Fratenally Yours
MN
P.S. Leave my name alone, I have worked long and hard to get this name.
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