U of Charleston Suspends TKE

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Kevin

For NIC-type groups, there is a fixed cost for operating a chapter because national consultants have to be flown in annually or bi-annually, so there needs to be a minimum amount of membership to make that cost-effective for the general fraternity to be able to continue that as a service.

Also, just to be competitive for membership, single-digits won't cut it. In most, maybe all cases where a fraternity is that far down in the tiers, the best thing to do is to shut down and start over with a clean slate.

For flying in consultants, it might make a difference whether there was another chapter of the fraternity within the city.I went to college at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, it has Sigma Alpha Epsilon and so does University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. All of these schools are *considerably* closer to each other than either is to the Pittsburgh airport.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by naraht

For flying in consultants, it might make a difference whether there was another chapter of the fraternity within the city.I went to college at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, it has Sigma Alpha Epsilon and so does University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. All of these schools are *considerably* closer to each other than either is to the Pittsburgh airport.

Out here in flyover country it's a bit different than in Pittsburgh. Things are a lot more spread out.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Out here in flyover country it's a bit different than in Pittsburgh. Things are a lot more spread out.

Not doubting that. What you said was much more true in flyover country. There is a difference between a 3 hour drive to the nearest other chapter vs. a 15 minute walk. I know one of the Fraternities at Carnegie-Mellon, the pledge class meeting that focused on being part of the National Fraternity was always held jointly with the pledge class of the chapter at Pitt.