Conclaves - Back to the Future

[john1082]

I suspect that they will be planned to be cost effective for the undergrads. Meeting at or near a college campus that can provide classroom space. The likely style of hotel would be a Holiday Inn or the like. With the country divided into ten or twelve regions there would be a pair of conclaves per month although I would anticipate that the winter quarter would be the heaviest time, thereby bypassing the football season.

The host chapter would have their work cut out for them but it really would be an exercise in working together and that planning exercise, in itself, is a great learning tool

The style would have to change from the conclaves of the seventies were were simply an excuse for 300 brothers to get together to trash the UCLA house.

[HONKY660]

Conclaves were never cost effective for my chapter. El Paso is 8 hours away from the next big Texas city, so being in the southwest conclave didn't work for us, but yet being in the western conclave didn't work either because the conclaves were held in california somewhere usually which is 12 hours away. But it was usually cheaper to travel by plane to california than texas, go figure, so we usually went to the western conclave meetings. Sucks being the bastard city of texas.
IHQ usually pays for the delagate to attend, being that it is a requirement in our constitution that at least one delagate attends per chapter, otherwise they fine you $1,000. We used to pay for at least one delagate, then road trip it, then shack up in the delagates room for free. Some would attend the conference, others just there to party with bros from all over. Overall a good time. Conclave meetings are always held in the spring, I guess because so much less happens in the spring semester in schools.
If, or when they create the new conclaves, it will be interesting where they put my chapter and New Mexico State U. New Mexico State U is in Las Cruces, which is 45 minutes away from El Paso. Since we no longer have chapters in arizona, our chapters sit in no mans land, right in between both borders.

Last regional conferences I attended a couple years back, were either in Dallas 10 hours away, or in Oklahoma City 11 hours away.

[john1082]

The events were held at different times throughout the country. The Pacific Conclave tried to hold theirs during the fall - that way Reno didn't have to do Donner Pass in the winter. Typically the host school would get a big block of football tickets for the Saturday afternoon game and that would be 25% of the program.

We'd have to space them out in order to get HQ participation.

As far as redrawing the Conclave lines goes, there is nothing that says that we have to use the same ones as last time. UTEP and New Mexico might well fit in better with the Colorado chapters than with Texas.
California and Nevada fit in nicely, but what about Oregon and Washington? The natural order of things would suggest that we have a more or less equal number of chapters in each Conclave but practicality may require that we have some smaller ones.

What this opportunity gives us is a chance to organize how we interact between the Zetas and to organize ourselves in a way that makes sense for the undergrads, not HQ in Indy.

[Tom Earp]

Even though I received a PM explaining how much money was lost via the Regionals, I still wonder if it could not be worked out?

Granted there are manythings involved as Hotel contracts, but if a re alignment was figured in it could possibly work today.

I am sure that Zetas are more interested in those close to them. Say for example in jsut the Kansas City area, There is Ks., Mo., Neb., Iowa, with enough Zetas. Or say Texas while HUGE, it could be worked into Arizona, Col., or some others.

Just some food for thought?

I wish there would be more information coming from IHQ concerning this and LCAP.

[john1082]

I think the details regarding the conclaves are still being worked out and I doubt that we'll see anything before GA next summer.