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Yes, I am still clutching my metaphorical pearls. And I'll tell you why. First, I don't know where most of the folks here went to school. And unless you have your GLO in your screen name, I probably don't know which one you belong to. I really don't bother keeping a chart of all that. So this is not directed at any of that.
I've been a regional or national officer with my GLO since 1980. I also served as an interim Greek Adviser at a small public commuter school with only 4 NPC chapters. I went to BIG SEC school. During my time as a regional and national officer, I worked with all sizes of chapters, chapters with alll levels of success, traveled for the Fraternity from New York to Florida to California to Oregon...and many places in between. I learned a lot about regional and campus differences. My goodness, some places didn't even have housing! How could they exist like that? We had some successes and we had some failures. And I learned a lot. So here's what I know:
RFM is the single best thing to come along since sliced bread. Seriously. Some of the campuses I worked with would have benefited soooo much from RFM. But the limits placed by the old method just didn't allow WRCs many options to succeed. Yes, it was hard always being the one chapter doing COB. Yes, you had to be creative to handle all the rushees at a party when you were smaller. Yes, you needed help from other chapters and maybe even a few alums on the floor but CPH often wouldn't allow you that latitude. Yes, it was hard to pay for that house when you were so far below total. True your national didn't help as much as you hoped. Yes, you were blind sided when the chapter closed. Yes, yes, yes to all of your complaints. Because mine closed too...and was gone for 32 years. So I know exactly how it feels.
But that is ancient history. And it isn't doing anyone any good to come here and spew your venom, complain about things that are decades past and talk as if it's common place now. It isn't. RFM has truly helped the WRCs increase their numbers. I can site many instances but I don't want to call out any specific groups or campuses. But they are all around. As for the numbers on the floor recruiting like at Clemson, that is not the only place that happens. It's very common, ladies. I've seen it many times. Often it's the Fire Marshall who controls the numbers allowed in the suite. That was the case at Auburn. And it helped the smaller chapters a lot because it wasn't obvious they had fewer members as the total number allowed was limited. Pretty much all you have to do these days is ask CPH for help and they'll give it. Some places, not so much it's true. But NPC and the I/NPs have forged an alliance and they are really working for the good of all.
Pardon a couple of shout outs here: 3 cheers for AST for pulling up stakes in Birmingham and moving to Indy where they have more options to co-op programs with the other GLOs who have their HQs there. It's helping them immensely to be able to do that. And to the TPA on here, one of your most revered alums is a good friend of mine and I'm not so sure she would agree with your point of view. She's on a different campus at least once a week or more and i know she must have been at no less than 4 Conventions this summer. She's coming to a place near you. GO see her. She's awesome!
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