Delta Tau Delta Closes U. of Virginia Chapter

DeltAlum · #1 08-25-2006, 11:02 PM

At one point -- which I backed away from as quickly as possible -- there was rumbling about asking me to be one of the alums who investigate alleged hazing and alcohol violations, etc. and then making a recommendation.

That would have been very hard.

Kevin · #2 08-26-2006, 10:24 PM

DA,

I can't imagine anyone being crazy enough to take a job like that. It would be an honor to be asked, but to actually do it? I fully understand your decision not to.

Tom Earp · #3 08-27-2006, 10:51 AM

D A, an honor to be asked, but a smart move on your part!

No sense of being a nice gentleman like you to have to play the Big Bad Wolf role.

Breath a sigh of releif and carry on!

WVU alpha phi · #4 08-27-2006, 12:54 PM

Delts also just closed their chapter here at West Virginia.

Tom Earp · #5 08-27-2006, 01:36 PM

Sadly We all have Chapters closing for one reason or another.

1.R M

2. Low numbers

3. Debt owed to HQs

I continue to say it again, who are the real losers here? The possiblity of Men and Women who may have joined and never will.

jon1856 · #6 08-28-2006, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Sadly We all have Chapters closing for one reason or another.

1.R M

2. Low numbers

3. Debt owed to HQs

I continue to say it again, who are the real losers here? The possiblity of Men and Women who may have joined and never will.

Tom & DA;
Well said and all too true.....

Symbal · #7 09-19-2006, 01:58 PM

I'm an undergrad at WVU, and within my first few days at WVU, I remember spying the DTD house, and thinking...dang...what a wreck... A few days later, it pops up in the school paper that they were shut down for fire violations. Never met any of the Delts there, though.

DeltAlum · #8 08-27-2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by WVU alpha phi

Delts also just closed their chapter here at West Virginia.

I didn't know that, but it won't the the first time for us at WVU.

I saw a video tape showing the nearly complete destruction of the inside of one of our houses -- which turned out to be the West Virginia House.

While I don't know the details of this closing, if this situation is anything like our experience at Colorado, the WVU Chapter may be hard pressed to ever recolonize.

Fool me once, shame on you -- fool me twice, shame on me -- three stirkes and you're out. To coin a phrase.

I can't speak for the Fraternity and that's not an official rule, just what I've seen happen before.

There is another thread on whether national organizations take this kind of thing seriously.

We do.

Coramoor · #9 08-27-2006, 06:26 PM

We had a few legacies from the WVU Delts become brothers at my chapter. Their fathers put hundreds of thousands into that house after the first destruction back in 94 (I think). Then it got messed up again...and needless to say the Delts there lost a lot if not all of their alumni support this time.

It's a shame because it is such an old delt chapter and had a great location and strong alumni. Thrown away.

DeltAlum · #10 08-27-2006, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Coramoor

We had a few legacies from the WVU Delts become brothers at my chapter. Their fathers put hundreds of thousands into that house after the first destruction back in 94 (I think). Then it got messed up again...and needless to say the Delts there lost a lot if not all of their alumni support this time.

It's a shame because it is such an old delt chapter and had a great location and strong alumni. Thrown away.

If you go back to the very early days, it was one of our first chapters. In the official hisotry, the chapter is mentioned as one of the chapters present at the very first national gathering. It had been closed and then recolonized.

The alumni loss of support is much like the situation at Colorado. Local alumni had refurbished the really grand house to the tune of $1.5 Million. It was trashed within months, and the charter was pulled again.

Many local alumni have no interest in recolonizing at all.

That shouldn't surprise anyone -- but somehow it always does.

ETA This is also too bad since our next Karnea will the the 150th Anniversary of the Fraternity and will be held in Pittsburgh, not far from WVU and will include a pilgrimage to Bethany College, West Virginia, where we were founded in 1858, (formerly Virginia when Delt was founded) to the Founders House which still stands as a shrine to Delta Tau Delta.