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Originally Posted by ForeverRoses
I remember when I was in college and a sorority decided to close, the remaining "actives" were given alumnae status, however I believe that the national officers that worked on the closing helped the women form into an official "club" on campus. So while they were no longer a member of the WPA (the NPC org on campus), they still had club meetings and had activites as a group. The club ended up disbanding when the last alum graduated. basically they turned into a mini-alumnae chapter (since we were a small college town with no real alumnae chapters within an hour of us).
I was always impressed that the national officers helped them do this, rather than just dropping them cold (as we all know sometimes happens).
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In a perfect world, no chapter would ever be closed. Everyone's dues would be paid on time, everyone would be presentable every time she left the house, everyone would show spirit 24/7, no one would ever even dream of hazing, and everyone would have high moral standards.
We don't live there.
Sororities are becoming more of a business - the amount of litigation alone has raised the cost of each chapter & each GLO to almost prohibitive levels. That leaves the GLO putting more stress on each chapter to
produce, however that GLO defines it. From what I hear, closing a "weak" chapter and recolonizing is becoming the wave of the future. In regards to DePauw, I'd be interested in knowing if the sorority involved would have lost their charter completely had the entire chapter been given alumnae status, or would the University have allowed the chapter to close and recolonize.
With all of this in mind, I think that the chapter ForeverRoses mentions handled the situation is by far the best I've ever seen or heard. Kudos to whichever GLO was involved in that!
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