Quote:
Recognizing that a handful of bad apples can spoil an entire house's
image, Mr. Samples and other members of the fraternity examined their
recruitment practices and decided to become more selective. "We paid for
the recruitment mistakes of other classes," says Mr. Samples, "because the
emphasis was on getting large numbers of people instead of focusing on
quality members." That approach is often a result of financial pressures --without enough members, expenses, including hefty mortgages and party costs, can become prohibitive. Sometimes that means that house leaders do not carefully
consider how dedicated each student will be to their organization.
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It's great that Theta Chi HQ was supportive of their being more selective, and willing to take fewer members, in order to improve the chapter. Not all HQs are that supportive--at least, not in sororities.
On another note--it bothers me when people say that we, as Greeks, are punished for things that independents do all the time. We talk a great game about having "higher standards" than independents, with everything from GPA to campus involvement, but when we're actually held to those higher standards, the bellyaching begins.
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