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First of all you should be ashamed,
Gamma Zeta did not lose it's charter. That just goes to show you how up to date you are. The brothers left the house because LCAP had failed to make any improvements to it and it proved to be unliveable. The brothers of LCAP disbanded in winter of 2002 I believe when they all left the house. Brothers couldnt get heat in their rooms, they helped to tear up a floor that LCAP promised to replace immediately, only to find out they lied, and then had to walk on subflooring for a whole year, the list goes on. That's why they had to take LCAP to housing court.
Second of all, you obviously have never been to a Umass-Amherst fraternity. So do your sources have any names for you? Perhaps a description? Because if there is any proof, I'll personally take a ride up to Amherst and "discipline" any one of my brothers that did that.
"bleach poured over clothes and into computers, or drive-by obscenities or threats of torching the place"
Are you kidding me? For Christ's sake, that happened to us EVERY WEEKEND. My buddy had TWO laptops stolen in one year, a 100 pound house speaker was stolen, two grills were stolen, countless playstation, cd's, movies, tv, dvd players were stolen. I had a $300 leather jacket stolen, my tv smashed and my room spraypainted. Not to mention violent rampages by random people in the house causing damage because LCAP never fixed the lock outside. 2 cars were broken into outside and their radios stolen. A band member and brother's $2500 trumpet was found broken in half and smashed, preventing him from continueing with marching band for the year. You want me to go on, cause there is still alot more? And by the way, the stuff I mentioned happend in about 1 1/2 years time. So don't give me that sh#& about "disenfrachised" gamma zetas doing stuff. Any police reports? Photos? In fact, two of my brothers that were there in the end actually went to a party at OD on opening weekend. They said they had a great time. I think you better take a step back.
Gamma Zeta didn't lose their charter. In fact there are many members still at Umass today. And they did not lose their house, they chose to move out because LCAP failed to uphold their promises of making the house liveable. I know you think nationals and lcap can do no wrong, but there are some surprises for you out there.
Those Gamma Zeta's didn't let the house go to hell. When I was there my first semester, we raised over $7,000 to install new hard wood floors, IN ONE SEMESTER. There was always pride and respect for the house. The problem came several years ago when it was discovered an alumni in charge of paying taxes had not done so in many years. It crushed us being tens of thousands of dollars in debt, BUT WE STILL WENT AND AND STILL PROSPERED. We thought our only way to save the house was to sell it to LCAP. The only worry that all the brothers had was that LCAP only wanted the house and would just try to kick us out. We believed them when they said they wanted to help us out and keep the chapter there. They promised support for recruiting, incentives, fixing up the house, and on and on. You know what happend, NOTHING. And don't give me this crap about nationals and lcap not having any sort of agenda. I love LCA, but you also have to realize they are here to make money.
But honestly I don't even care about that stuff. I'm actually not bitter, it was the greatest time of my life and would do it all over again in a heartbeat because the good always outweighed the bad, and there was ALOT of bad.
But the thing that gets me the most is that there is somewhere on the internet telling lies about MY chapter committing illegal activity. I dont even care if it is just a sentence or not on some obscure website. Those are my BEST FRIENDS and BROTHERS you are accusing now, including me. And thats bulls&* taking some strangers word without finding out any proof or evidence.
You shouldn't be ashamed of losing that house, it was never yours, it was GAMMA ZETA's. It was me, my brothers and over 1500 alumni that made that house through their blood sweat tears and $$$. Every alumni of that house had a legal and equal share of its ownership. I'm not pissed about losing it, I just want a chapter at Umass, and neither should you be pissed. After all, LCA and Gamma Zeta arent about houses, they're about people, right???
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