Lifetime?
I am a brother at a BMP chapter. I joined last semester and went through Epsilon last weekend(the equivalent of finishing pledging for anyone in a traditional chapter). I was on such a high until today when one of my pledge brothers was talking about getting a tattoo of the founders badge and an older brother told him to wait until he graduates because he could get kicked out.
Then I remembered that my chapter kicks members out frequently, about 2 or 3 a semester will be suspended and 1 or 2 a year expelled. The thing that gets most guys is our grade policy. We have a very strict policy and if someone screws up they are gone.
I understand that there should be a process to remove guys because some time it is necessary but should it not be much more difficult to remove guys? It says lifetime member on my card but I am advised not to get a tattoo because it is truly for life. Also national bylaws say that if a man makes below national standard GPA for two semesters they are "subject to expulsion." Most of our guys read that as saying that they must be expelled but to me it says that they could possibly be expelled but the chapter is not forced to do so.
I was wondering what guys from other chapters thought.
I love my fraternity and I love the guys in it I just think that some of them don't understand what for life means. I think that when someone is my brother them making bad grades does not change that.
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