Standing of Chapters

[Ottor 246]

Has anybody gotten a report on any of the zetas or colonies who went before the Standing of Chapters committee in Memphis? I had several long conversations with a brother from Colony 284 Texas A&M International, and I've been dying to know if they stayed open.

Anybody know anything?

[HONKY660]

Originally Posted by Ottor 246

Has anybody gotten a report on any of the zetas or colonies who went before the Standing of Chapters committee in Memphis? I had several long conversations with a brother from Colony 284 Texas A&M International, and I've been dying to know if they stayed open.

Anybody know anything?

Ya they're still open. They got a scare but were allowed to stay open. Their president is a myspace regular and my zeta's president spoke with him as well.

[Ottor 246]

Thanks for the update, Honky! I got the sense that these guys don't quite have their act together just yet, but that they're trying really hard. I'm glad they get another chance. Ricardo was supposed to email me when he found out, but either he forgot, or my spam filter blocked him. I didn't get his email address, but I told him about this board, so maybe he'll show up here.

[john1082]

I believe that one chapter may have been closed; if I understood correctly, they didn't even show up! It may well have been one of the chapters / colonies which appeared in 2006 in Orlando and was given a year to reform. Guess they "chose poorly".

[Tom Earp]

While it is old history now-G A in Indy, I sat on the committe for colonies, to decide whether they stayed or not.

We finally okayed all involved.

NC A & T became Chartered and Un. Alaska was closed. And one Zeta was closed and they also had no one there.

It is aways sad to see one of us go. It is not our decession, it is theirs.

I wish there would be more updates on Colonies and Zetas about who is coming and who is gone.

[john1082]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

While it is old history now-G A in Indy, I sat on the committe for colonies, to decide whether they stayed or not.

We finally okayed all involved.

NC A & T became Chartered and Un. Alaska was closed. And one Zeta was closed and they also had no one there.

It is aways sad to see one of us go. It is not our decession, it is theirs.

I wish there would be more updates on Colonies and Zetas about who is coming and who is gone.

Tom, I disagree that it is always a choice. Alaska was a non-starter from the beginning. Good guys, but a commuter school with virtually no greek or on-campus life and a location too far away from anywhere else or anybody else. Those guys were dancing as fast as they could but the conditions just were not there for a successful chapter.

Other chapters are closed because of a change in University policy; I recall one up north, perhaps in Maine, that closed in response to a school dictate that they go coed. Clearly not a 'decision' of the undergrads in that case.

It isn't always a case of chapter culpability.