Selling Arrowmont...?!

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Originally Posted by piphiangel314

I'm personally upset about this...

It's been with Pi Phi for over 100 years. I understand wanting to expand on our literacy philanthropies, but I still think we shouldn't just dump Arrowmont.

I totally agree as well. I didn't post my opinion at the moment I posted this thread, because I had just seen the notice and didn't want to post something that I would regret later. But even out of the heat of the moment, I sort of feel that this is a short-sighted decision. I understand the idea of "branding" and focusing more energy and money on the literacy philanthropies (for one thing, it's something more people in the general public connect with than Arrowmont), but I can't help feeling that this seems rather sudden - of course, I'm in no position of authority so maybe it's been talked about for a while.

I wonder if member letters to Grand Council would change anything? I know the announcement on the website sounds pretty final.

I am also a bit that this first appeared on the website and not in the Arrow. Although maybe it will come out later.

Another question: how is Arrowmont governed? Would they have to have this approved at Convention? Or can Grand Council/the Foundation board members just sign off on it?

[I.C. a Pi Phi]

This is what I don't understand. Tennessee just did a HUGE project on the history of Arrowmont and Pi Phi's connection to it. And now we're severing the ties?

www.lib.utk.edu/arrowmont

And i think the woman in charge of this project was a special honor initiate at last year's AZ convention.

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New update on the website. It seems like it is a done deal.

Here is an FAQ that answers a bunch of my questions (please note it's a PDF so it takes a while to download):

http://www.pibetaphi.org/pibetaphi/u...ale%20FAQs.pdf

Basically, I see the rationale but I'm still not sure I truly like it.

The other thing I don't get is who are we selling the land to? We aren't selling it to Arrowmont. So are we selling it to some developer who is going to kick Arrowmont off the property? That's really crappy. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that they said Arrowmont can continue operations "if they choose to." What does that mean? I mean we're giving them lots of money (yay for that at least) from this sale, so why couldn't they continue operations - unless they were going to lose their facilities thanks to this sale???

I really want more answers.