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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
The alumni loss of support is much like the situation at Colorado. Local alumni had refurbished the really grand house to the tune of $1.5 Million. It was trashed within months, and the charter was pulled again.
Many local alumni have no interest in recolonizing at all.
That shouldn't surprise anyone -- but somehow it always does.
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This is an issue I have seen play out more than once in the last few years.
Getting a charter pulled is bad- but usually there is room to come back.
Piss off the alumni, and you have a much tougher long-term problem.
It is tough to convey to the undergrads that there is a fine line between having a "guy's house" and needlessly destroying property that is paid for by others.
Seems like you have to graduate and enter the real world to appreciate just how expensive it is to buy and maintain a Greek House- and just what kind of income an alum has to have in order to be able to donate thousands of dollars to any cause, to say nothing of the millions needed to buy and maintain a house at many campuses.
It all goes back to recruitment I think. Why are people pledging? What do they hope to get out of the fraternity? What role does it play in their lives?
The guys who stay drunk through college and tear up the house are not usually the ones who are going to make it big in the real world and have the resources to pay for the next generation to destroy the place all over again.
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