In what circumstances would you support reorganization or closing?

[UGAalum94]

Did the reorganization of Alpha Gamma Delta at Ohio State and the reorganization of Kappa at Ga. Southern involve girls going alum while they were still on campus and restarting with a colony picked by an extension team? I'm curious how it could go down so differently than DePauw.

Can you do a re-organization or re-colonization without making the current girls go alum? (I mean, it doesn't seem like the words allow for it, but why couldn't you, in fact, start with the girls you had, rather than from scratch, if they were still going to be on campus anyway?)

Weirdly, I can understand closing the chapter for four years to let everyone graduate and trying to colonize again with a new reputation, but I really hate the idea of dumping the girls that were just recruited in the last few years. It makes it about rejecting them as damaged goods, and that's really distasteful to me. How could it ever communicate anything other than, "If we could only get rid of you, then we can be really cool."

I'm not delusional about what incorporation mean in terms of shared responsibility and costs, but this rhetoric of being businesses is very unattractive. Sure, I know that since the GLOs are incorporated and have costs, members and chapters must meet their financial obligation to the organization. But it shouldn't become about maximizing the money in some way beyond the costs of operation.

I'm not busting on you, Honeychile, but if re-organizations become the wave of the future, national Greek life is done, in my opinion. No one joins a group to be at the mercy of IHQ. They know they are joining a national organization and expect IHQ to serve their needs in living out the sisterhood; they don't regard themselves as the pawns of the ladies at the top. It's also disgusting if you look back on any organization's history and ideals that it would come to that: opening and closing franchises because they weren't profitable enough. No thanks.