Dude, I got the pm. Thanks.
I tried to post this earlier but it didn't let me. I was wondering what you thought a student run fraternity council could offer. I go to a small school (4,000 people, 8% greek) where parties are open to the entire campus and generally are the same every year. Plus if venues like GC allow houses to see what's going on at other campuses and chances are one house, isn't going to use the idea of another house on the same campus the whole idea sharing becomes moot.
So what're the benefits that you see is what I'm asking in something like this?
-Rudey
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Originally posted by madmax
I think IFC sucks.
I am all for a student run IFC that has the fraternities doing the planning, organizing, and working together to benefit all groups involved, but IFC isn't about that anymore. It's a puppet organization of the university and the decisions are made by the university to benefit the university. IFC has become a machine of red tape and BS.
A few members of GC have pointed out positives of IFC such as a unified front, trading ideas on rush, mixers, philanthropy, but if fraternities dropped out of the school sponsored IFC and formed their own "fraternity council" the could still have the benefits that have been mentioned minus all the BS.
The bottom line is the results. How many school's have growing Greek systems or Greek Systems that are maintaining their current positions on campus? Not too many. Rush numbers are down, membership is down, and you have less money. In sorority language that means you are not meeting quota, you are not at total and you are going to have to COB or you national might threaten to pull your charter.
If you go to whatever school and look at the old composites vs. the new composites you will probably find that the average chapters size has has gone from 200-100(large campus), 100-50(medium size), or 50-25(small school) and that is happening while the school is growing. If a campus grows by a hypothetical 10%, Greek life should grow by 10% not decrease. This isn't efvery campus. I know there are some Greek systems that are doing great but they are the minority.
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