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Thanks for the bump, 33girl. Interesting topic.
I find it surprising that many GLO's base the number of voting collegiate delegates on chapter size. Having been to many Grand Conventions of my own GLO, I can imagine that causing significant problems for some smaller chapters. I'm thinking particularly about proposals for increased fees. An example: For large chapters on competitive campuses, minor fee increases would be just that - minor. But for small chapters who are struggling and/or are on a campus where the whole Greek system is struggling, even minor fee increases can have a devastating effect on future recruiting and retention. I've seen it happen.
Again based only on my personal experience, collegiate voting delegates are the least knowledgeable in the workings of an I/national organization and have difficulties seeing the "big picture". It's simply due to inexperience within the org as well as in life. I've seen collegiate struggle to understand what a proposed change even means due to the formal/legalese way it's written. They have difficulty grasping how some change might have long term effects (good or bad) for their own individual chapter, other chapters across the country and the org as a whole. They often blindly follow Grand Council's, the Bylaw Review committee's or other "important" alums' recommendations simply because "these people must know what's best". That's not always the case.
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