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The main issues that my chapter handled was drunken behavior (particularly repairing things that were broken while drunk) and financial issues (not paying bills.)
In my experience, a standards committee works best when it enforces all rules, to all members equally. You don't let a more popular brother off the hook just because. Everyone who walks into standards should be able to expect fair treatment.
Also, this is a good area of fraternity management to include alumni advisement. Alumni should never run a standards committee, but you need to establish the institutional memory of your chapter's judicial component. The desintegration of an effective standards committee is often the first sign of a chapter that is about to go into decline.
Also, make sure that standards is included in the constant revision of your chapter by-laws. While standards must always be required to enforce the by-laws to the letter, when some of your rules are out of step, it will be the standards committee who first recognizes this. They should be proactive in recomending revisions. The recomendation of revisions should be discipined, because you don't want by-law revisions being proposed at every other chapter.
A chapter's standards committee will deal with financial issues. A lot. They may be the ones who strike a payment plan with a brother. If that is the case, then they are also responsible for followup and enforcement.
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