Section 52 Divided

[Sister Havana]

As of the end of last year, Section 52 is no longer. It has been divided into two sections: the north half of the state is now Section 31, and the southern half of the state (including my home chapter) is now Section 46.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand I can understand why it was done, but on the other hand...yeah, I'm sentimental!

(Both new sections will have combined sectional conferences, etc.)

[Senusret I]

Awwww.... Section 84 divided in 05, I believe. Or 04. It is now Section 85 (DC and vicinity) and Section 86 (Baltimore and the MD Boondocks).

Administratively, it's a good move. The section was expanding and needed to be better managed.

[Starofsorrow]

Section 42 was divided, as well. We're now Section 43 and 44, respectively. This happened back in the early 90s,I think. We still have combined sectional conferences, though, so it's not so bad. =)

No worries, it was probably just split up to make it easier on the adminstration! Note that the new sections will have a new sectional staff and whatnot, and can have a more of a personal relationship with the section chairs. =)

[naraht]

In two different ways this represents Sectional splits jumping the shark, one of which was more or less inevitable, the other much less so.

The National Fraternity will not re-use any sectional numbers that have been used before. The only section numbers greater than 40 that have not ever been used are 46, 60, 78, 87 (which may be created in Region II this year) and 93. 35-39 have never been used so, I'm not sure why they reached all the way down for 31. The fact is that the Section numbers when originally established after con-con (they used different numbers prior to con-con) were more tightly packed in the east and that is where the expansion turned out to be. For example the only numbers under 21 that have been used are 1,2,4,7,8,10, 13 and 14.

What wasn't inevitable was that this section would split at all. From everything I can find, the section just went up from 8 chapters to 9 last year and according to the current stuff on the National Website they have no PGs or IGs. (This may be a month or two old though). For a section the physical size of Indiana, I just don't understand why there was pressure to split unless it was from the fact that both of the other old sections in Region VI (48 & 54) had done so in the last two years. I

f Indiana were the size of Section 2 (San Diego, some of Los Angeles Metro, Arizona and Las Vegas), maybe splitting makes more sense, but Indiana end to end is less than six hours travel and the farthest apart chapters are more like four hours...

Maybe there are other reasons, but still doesn't seem quite right.

Randy

[Senusret I]

Am I the only one that finds section numbering confusing and arbitrary in the first place?

[Sister Havana]

No, you aren't.