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Originally posted by Little E
FYI- Many colleges will recognize but not actually FUND greek orgs. Student fees are supposed to go to open membership orgs, thus greeks have dues. Maybe I misunderstood your post though.
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i realize that. my old campus did not offer funding to specific chapters, but my new one does. i personally think that greeks should be offered the opportunity to get funding from student service fees. they do discrimiate based on gender, but they are also exempt from having to allow the opposite sex through title 9, or was it 7? can't remember off hand. single sex sports clubs could get funding and they are exempt as well, so i don't see why greeks shouldn't have access.
the amount of funding chapters may get in no way covers all the costs associated with any organization (greek or not), so it is still necessary to collect dues.
fees are usually allocated to the governing councils or Greek Life in general, which goes to support all chapters and their members through speakers, leadership conferences, retreats, greek week, etc. in this sense, non-student members of a chapter would still benefit from the student fees. many administrators are hard core either way, so it can be difficult to show the discrepencies.