The end of LCAP

[lenoxxx]

Yeah;

That is a real bummer, I hadnt heard anything about this situation outside my own chapter having it's house put on the market. And the whole furor over this story sort of subsided after a while, I figured people should know about this. In fact, a large part of this article was about writing letters of complaint to the GHZ etc.

[Tom Earp]

Since this thread was brought back up, LCAP is History as many may know!

Is it being handled properly, no!

LCAP was a great idea and not properly run no matter who was in charge.

It became a cluster fu*k up! Admit it, we know it as well as others of us that know it!

I have been in contact with Brothers who have lost or are losing houses, not Brotherhoods. Can it kill those chapters, hell yes!

Am I happy, hell I no and I am like you Pissed You bet

your ass I am!!!

I feel like our Fraternity has let us as Brothers down!

From what I am gathering, IHQ is dumping property at the harm of chapters.

Is this helping us, NO!

Am I happy, of corse not and have tried to eplain this to IHQ! Are they listening, I hope so!

You can get on the IHQ site and make your voice heard instead of just complaining here on and open web site!

[GammaZeta]

Tom, I agree 100%.

I hate to say it at this point, but I said all of that on these forums 4 years ago. The writing was on the wall.

AN IDEA!

How about we start an online petition? It would be MUCH easier to send all the chapters links to it, and it would be one source to have HQ hear our voices!

Let all brothers and alumni sign an online petition.

Also, I would like to praise GOZ for getting this going and trying to raise the funds. I wish Gamma Zeta was as well organized. I envy and admire your efforts.

[lenoxxx]

I think it is interesting that the LCAP dump of properties avoids one key item- the general fraternity meeting (be it GA or Leadership Seminar) in the summer. Look at the dates for how this was handled. The notices that the houses were being unloaded were sent to alumni about 6 days before thanksgiving in the fall, giving just about no warning to anyone to prepare for this- this date is also signifigantly after GA. Now they seem to be asking for above market prices (on houses that were basically given to them in the first place years ago) to cover for their own negligence; and note the deadline in the note from Michigan State's letter- June 1rst.

Which I believe is before GA so that the general membership that votes on items of interest to the general fraternity cannot be made part of that decision making process. I would think that if you could talk to all of the LCAP chapters and see the big picture, it would be shockingly bad/embarrassing, and a vote to suspend these sales pending a vote of the general fraternity would force some sort of action to make the prices more reasonable to let our chapters hold onto these homes.

Really, the more you read the Michigan State letter, the more angry anyone associated with the fraternity would get regarding how chapters that trusted Indianapolis are now being treated. And as to Tom's point about this being on an open website- good, it should make people uncomfortable, upset and embarrassed to read about how lambda chi's are treating each other. Perhaps putting some small public spotlight might force people to do the right thing when they otherwise would not do that.

And one more thing- if they were supposedly losing 15 k a year for years on the Michigan State house, then what business would continue to run that way? Why would you not change the structure of the leasing/pricing etc. to try to not lose the same amount every year?