Dolphin, being someone who has done NUMEROUS hazing investigations in New Jersey, I can tell you that nearly EVERY national organization has had trouble with hazing in the Northeast. There's a reason why the large national organizations don't come to the Northeast, and that's due to the risk management issues that come from the campuses they're expanding at. I would be willing to bet that hazing goes on at your campus....maybe not by Tri Delta, but by other organizations. I don't think I've been to one campus in NY or NJ that doesn't haze, with the exception of maybe Syracuse and Cornell, but they did back in the day too.
As for why smaller organizations aren't there, well, I hate to sound mean, but Stockton hit the jackpot when a group like Tri Delta expressed interest. I'd be willing to bet that they got very few "big sorority" packets of interest. I honestly wonder what made Tri Delta want to go to Stockton, but that's just my cynical nature and by no means a knock against Stockton or Tri Delta. I think you all have a fabulous organization.
As to the fact of having 40 or 5 paid staff members, D Phi E has 6 paid staff members. The rest of our organization is based on volunteers. We have well over 200 volunteers who perform various functions within the sorority. For instance, I'm the editor of our international magazine, The TRIAD, and I think I may be one of only a handful of volunteer editors. Most NPC sororities pay someone full time to do that job. We have teams of folks who are trained and work in the areas of risk management, hazing, recruitment, etc. Each team has a staff member assigned to the team, but ALL are trained at annual volunteer training conferences and international convention. So if you're saying that a sorority/fraternity can't function well or serve its collegiate members fully because they don't have a large paid staff, I would beg to differ.
OK, off my soapbox
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