Intermediate Chapters..and "such"

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Lately here on GC there has been talk about what to do about incidences of hazing what what we can do to protect the fraternity from future lawsuits and "such". Once, I was at a district convention and had a chat with the district director about the possibility of reinstating the intermediate chapters. For those of you that do not know, two intermediate chapters were established , one in 1952 at Howard University (Omicron Lambda Alpha) and one in 1954 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Omicron Lambda Beta) to try to establish chapters for recent college graduates who maybe attending graduate and professional schools or who were not quite comfortable with the climate of a traditional alumni chapter (with 'grey hairs' as a criterion for credibility, high dues structure and the "such"). I suggested to the District director that this maybe a way to encourage college brothers to continue to remain active when they graduate, with a chapter that was on a university campus, with younger brothers who were not so settled into family life and career that they couldn't "kick it" every once in a while, and also who understood that though you were a college graduate or alumni brother so to speak, you still were not a "grey head" and therefore had different interests than the average active alumni brother.
His response was that it would be defeating the purpose of alumni chapters to reinstitute intermediate chapters because the push with nationals is to get the recent college grads to re-up with a local alumni chapter. He thought resources would be better served if younger alumni brothers such as myself and about 70% of the brothers in my chapter, made an effort to try to change the culture of alumni chapters in general. Try to make the alumni chapter experiences more conducive to younger alumni brothers with things such as step teams and allowing the younger brothers to have more responsibility in the chapter. I thought that this would be hard to do if you are not a "grey head" then you don't have much clout in the alumni chapter, unless the chapter is hard up for workers, which is the case in many chapters. What do you brothers think? Also, to open the debate up to all of the D9, has anyone in the other orgs. have documented history of "intermediate" chapters such as these in Alpha Phi Alpha, and if so, do you think they could serve a useful purpose today?
I say this because I think that if you had intermediate chapters, you can have more people active with the general organization, which has benefits on several levels. If you have more people active with the organizations, then maybe they will care more about the general org., and be less likely to advocate for the underground, ghost stuff that is crippling all of our orgs. today. With intermediate chapters, you'd have a better chance of snagging some people before they become disgruntled , inactive old heads who only contribute to the org. when it comes to "being out" at parties and picnics and showing up for the "underground sessions." Intermediate chapters would work well as transition grounds for people, slowly weening brothers out of the "college yard culture" into to the more reserved, and sometimes more political alumni culture, which is necessary to pull off the things that nationals is trying to pull off with corporate sponsorships and political action conferences and "such". Also, this helps with college and alumni brother relations, so often the college brother gets jaded by the thought of being in an alumni chapter due to the image of the alumni chapter as being "soft" because of it's stance aginst pledging and many college brothers feel that the alumni brothers sold the fraternity out with the moratorium and the institution of MIP in the early 1990's. (I know that the "feelings" didn't start then, but I think that it was a pivotal time in alumni-college brother relations.)
I made this post long enough, I have other points that I will bring up if people are interested.
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