The Spring 2007 Update

[JonoBN41]

Happy Founders Day everyone! Perhaps I write the following in the spirit of Jack Mason.

Today I received a copy of the Spring 2007 "Update - A Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation Publication." I was very happy to see a section called "Current Chapter Stats", listing all chapters, current (#of) undergraduates, and total initiates. Very good!

Then I started looking at the numbers.

- I've known Sigma-Chi 407 for years. He graduated from Alabama-Birmingham then spent a couple years at UPenn in grad school, and is now back in Alabama going to law school. The problem is, the "current stats" show his chapter as having only 382 total initiates.

- Trey, aren't you Pi-Iota 47? NC A&T is shown as having 25 initiates.

- In November 2003 I presented Beta-Nu 641 with a nice badge upon his initiation. Strangely, Beta-Nu has only 608 at last count.

All these figures are listed "as of 2/1/07."

Why - in this age of spreadsheets and computerized record keeping - are these so-called current stats so out of date? Even the figures in the 2003 Paedagogus are more up-to-date. Can anyone explain why this happened?

The title "Update" is really a misnomer, and what I thought was a great resource is so unreliable as to be essentially useless.

C'mon guys. Can't we do better than this?

ZAX,
Jono

PS - Tom, before you even ask, Pitt State supposedly has a total of 552.