Good, rugged folding chairs are hard to find. Invariably, someone tries to stand on one, and get injured when the chair decides to fold.
A better bet is to get rigid, wood chairs. Get ones where the back is short enough, so when you nest one on top of another, the seats touch, and the tip of the back is not touching the floor. Chairs take a beating, but every couple of years, the pledges can sand and varnish them. Upholstered seats are nice, especially if you (or the next pledge class) can easily re-cover them.
If you are really short on storage space, drill out the cross-pieces with a forstner bit, and you can stack another row, on the first row of chairs. The glides of the top chairs fit into the cutouts of the inverted lower chairs.
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