My theory is fraternities changed after animal house. Fraternitys were in a decline before the movie. The antics in the movie made guys interested in fraternities again but fraternities had to do animal house type stuff to attract members. I think after hazing laws and such fraternities have gotten better. All the strict rules fines and high insurence make things difficult but keep most groups out of trouble. The bad apples get weeded out.
On the topic of fraternities going on a campus to small or where there is no room; I think some groups take the bigger is better attitude and if some chapters close they still have alot more. But the small school chapters usually die anyways. TKE's big mistake was back in the day when they started chapters at community colleges. Those chapters died quick and thank god they outlawed starting chapters there again.
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