Conclaves - Back to the Future

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Conclaves were never cost effective for my chapter. El Paso is 8 hours away from the next big Texas city, so being in the southwest conclave didn't work for us, but yet being in the western conclave didn't work either because the conclaves were held in california somewhere usually which is 12 hours away. But it was usually cheaper to travel by plane to california than texas, go figure, so we usually went to the western conclave meetings. Sucks being the bastard city of texas.
IHQ usually pays for the delagate to attend, being that it is a requirement in our constitution that at least one delagate attends per chapter, otherwise they fine you $1,000. We used to pay for at least one delagate, then road trip it, then shack up in the delagates room for free. Some would attend the conference, others just there to party with bros from all over. Overall a good time. Conclave meetings are always held in the spring, I guess because so much less happens in the spring semester in schools.
If, or when they create the new conclaves, it will be interesting where they put my chapter and New Mexico State U. New Mexico State U is in Las Cruces, which is 45 minutes away from El Paso. Since we no longer have chapters in arizona, our chapters sit in no mans land, right in between both borders.

Last regional conferences I attended a couple years back, were either in Dallas 10 hours away, or in Oklahoma City 11 hours away.