Decisions

[Coramoor]

Yes, we're down 20 chapters, but our GPA is up, our chapter sizes are up, our advisor core is up, donations are up...etc

Being down 20 chapters is a big deal. At our current expansion rate it will take 5-6 years to make those up just to get back to where we were 10 years ago. I've seen it stated that a goal is to get to 175 chapters by 2010....never going to happen.

In fact every year since I've been in Beta we have actually shrunk in chapter #'s.

Our chapter size is not up. It's up from last year, but from 10 years ago we are down by a substantial %, both in chapter size and undergraduate membership.

Our advisor core is up....so what? I bet more than half of those advisors are only active on paper, and the other half are at odds half the time with their chapter because of the differences in the way each party wants to run it.

Donations are up...to the G.F. To send undergrads to 'leadership' schools that they don't want to go too. Any time a chapter is sanctioned one of the sanctions is 'send X amount of brothers to these programs'.

Brothers don't want to go. The guys that I know from my chapter that went came back brainwashed, acting holier than thou, and ended up doing something stupid and getting kicked out of my chapter.


Telling people to stop focusing on the negatives is ridiculous because your negatives are actual problems faced by the fraternity. If you want to sugar coat everything and pretend things are getting better rather than face the problems, be my guest.