Expansion 2003 and Beyond - Page 15

Tom Earp · #**211** 08-22-2005, 06:04 PM

I Love The James Madison one. Underground as it was but finally getting Recognition for Loe these many years. Have a connetion with Them Through a Cigar Co.

It seems that The New Regiem is looking closer to Chapters in Trouble with the exception of R M! Good for Them and Us!

Oh do know that that two of the above have been gone for awhile and need to be added back into the fold of LXA!

If possible, Let Us and IHQ work on getting Those Zetas back to snuff first and not go exploring New Schools unless there are certain Circumstances.

Ryan400z · #**212** 08-23-2005, 12:14 PM

Awesome, especially glad to see the James Madison chapter is back. Some associates (now brothers) stopped by our chapter at UT 2 years ago. Those guys were awesome and told us all about the problems they were having getting their charter back. Its good to see they will now be recognized by the fraternity and university again. We need all the help we can get in the state of Virginia because we have had a lot of chapters get in trouble there in the past few years.

HONKY660 · #**213** 09-19-2005, 01:54 AM

The website listed the following campus's for Spring 2006 expansion: During the spring 2006, colonizations will occur at Baldwin-Wallace, North Carolina at Wilmington, and Western Carolina. Other prospective colonizations in the short-term pipeline include: UCLA, Franklin & Marshall, Christopher Newport University, and Texas at Tyler.

And apparently the colonies at Uof Idaho and U of Utah were voted to be closed.

Tom Earp · #**214** 09-19-2005, 05:13 PM

Also Sam Houston, in Tx. Where else!

Add Rechartering:

Un. Memphis
Towson
Valpariso

!!!!

Not sure about UCLA, from what I have heard, is a tough campus.

Un. Id. and Un Utah, both espc. Utah which is unto it self.

I can understand Flag Ship Schools, but wonder if the cost is worth it along with Hawahii as so damn far and costly to get to.

Havent heard much from crmdogg at Un Alaska so not sure of the situation there, but again a long way away.

With the cost cutting that seems to be going on at IHQ, it might be very worth while to look else where.

Two or three pronged attack needs to looked at and think that the current Leaders are just doing that.

Tom Earp · #**215** 11-27-2005, 03:24 PM

**BUMP**

Any News?

HONKY660 · #**216** 11-27-2005, 07:51 PM

The colony at U of Alaska folded as well. A lot of the expansion sites posted on the LCA webpage have not happened, I wonder what the cause for that may be.

lenoxxx · #**217** 11-27-2005, 07:56 PM

Seems like alot of the colonies in the last 6-7 years really had problems from Day #1 & folded shortly thereafter- Florida Intl, Alaska, Portland St, Austin Peay, Utah, Idaho etc.

They never got much rolling, if anything. Now granted some seem to pull out like NCA&T, but it makes me wonder what is the underlying cause to the immediate failure colonies, it seems to be more than a fluke. Im also curious if this is something that happens with other fraternities.

Lenoxxx

ZetaPhi708 · #**218** 11-27-2005, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lenoxxx
Seems like alot of the colonies in the last 6-7 years really had problems from Day #1 & folded shortly thereafter- Florida Intl, Alaska, Portland St, Austin Peay, Utah, Idaho etc.

They never got much rolling, if anything. Now granted some seem to pull out like NCA&T, but it makes me wonder what is the underlying cause to the immediate failure colonies, it seems to be more than a fluke. Im also curious if this is something that happens with other fraternities.

Lenoxxx

Lennox, where there still some brothers who went through Ritual at those colonies? I met a guy on myspace who is from alaska and said he was a brother....

lenoxxx · #**219** 11-27-2005, 08:11 PM

Just as a quick amendment to my prior post-

The LCA colony at FIU folded and then reopened and is back now- I went out of curiousity to FIU's Greek Life website- it was like Shangri-La for new fraternities. 10 year old fraternity chapters building 2 and 3 million dollar mansions?

A Fiji alumni from another school footed the bill to build the Fiji colony a 2.3 million dollar house?! I'll admit I havent seen a whole lot of the "Greek World", but this place just seemed unreal. My next question is when does the LCA colony build it's 2 million dollar house?

Geeeesh
Lenoxxx

lenoxxx · #**220** 11-27-2005, 08:14 PM

ZP,

I may know some things, but I dont know jack about our (former) Alaska colony. I never thought it made a whole lot of sense to go somewhere a million miles from society to open up a chapter in some ice locked wasteland that has no greek life, when there are literally 30 dormant chapters within 100 miles of Philadelphia/Richmond/NYC that have actual greek life and LCA alumni that would most likely come out and support a re-colonization.

Ask your online Alaska LCA what the deal is, perhaps he can shed some light on it.

Lenoxxx

ZetaPhi708 · #**221** 11-27-2005, 09:04 PM

I am not on myspace anymore....

I was just wondering cuz when I talked to him last on myspace, he gave no indication that the colony had folded....

Erik P Conard · #**222** 11-28-2005, 02:05 AM

yes, attrition is high on new colonies, not so bad with revivals
who have occasionally an alum with big bucks.
we turned down an invite to pioneer U of AK
TKE, like you-all, were late comers and cursed & cajoled at our
pioneering forty five years ago; Beta et al. are gettin' a taste
how tough it is
Naw, it is tough for us all out there.
You are still a honorable competitor and a classy outfit

JonoBN41 · #**223** 11-28-2005, 02:24 AM

Erik,

Classy outfit is a compliment when in fact we are a bunch of misfits. We like it that way, or at least I do.

Now a question for you, Erik. When was the first TKE badge made? This question might well belong somewhere else on GC, but I'm asking you here, and I'm guessing you don't have an easy answer. My nephew didn't know either.

Also, when did Teke first institute the concept of colonies?

Jono

lifesaver · #**224** 11-28-2005, 02:49 AM

Alaska folded because there was no alum support in the area. Its almost impossible to have a successful colony without active, involved alumni.

As for the success/failure of other colonies. The theory I have heard thrown around is that they were not chapters we should have expanded to in the first place. Environment wasnt right, etc. Some former staff members pushed hard for those expansions. Because he had had tremendous success with some of his expansions, he was given more lattitude than otherwise would have been given. Sometimes adequate research was not conducted and in other cases, it seems as if it might have been ignored. (this is going back at least three-five years).

Tom Earp · #**225** 11-28-2005, 05:23 PM

lifesaver, I am saddened to Hear that Alaska closed after what We went through at GA!

I can understand what You are saying exactly about expansion.

When I told someone about expansion posibilitys at schools that were opening up to Nationals and was told, It was not of My Business, I wondered who this dud was and why!

Because of the $$$s that need to be invested at Much Larger Uns. where it might be prestigious to be at, it is not worth it! That is NOT WHAT WE are about.

Maybe I am wrong, but I would rather be at 1000 Schools where Greeks can Thrive than spend dollars where it is a Money pit or fight Greeks.

I think that was one of the points that I brought up about keeping Al. alive.

The ones I feel sorry for are the Brothers who were Initiated, are Brothers with no place to go!

I hope that They are Not Lost Forever.