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I'm not talking at all about my school or my undergrad experience.
While I certainly believe very deeply in what my fraternity is about, operationally it is still a business. As a business, it must provide adequate services to meet the expectations of members or they will either not stay members or pay or both.
For an NIC fraternity at any school that is 14-20 events a year, and those have a definable cost. It will be variable from place to place, depending on the rule structure between your school and nationals as locally enforced, and what things cost in that area based on what's available. I can show you locations where to do that many events according to the rules/costs they are required to deal with the min cost regardless if you have 20 or 70 members would be close to 100k/yr. And I can show you other places where you can accomplish the same thing for a tiny fraction of that cost.
I don't know what the economics of the greek system in Hawaii are. I'm not commenting on that. All I know is fewer members means less money, which drastically limits what you can do. That doesn't mean you can't survive or have a good greek experience, but that lack of resources will define that greek experience.
While a 100man chapter has huge financial resources, there are just as many cons to that end of the spectrum as well, they just tend to be less about money. Some happy medium supportable by the school is the most balanced situation. 20-anything is always going to be a struggle for resources. That chapter would be best served to get their numbers up closer to 40. There's a lot more synergy in that range to capitalize on.
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