[9807] in APO-L
Re: quality/quantity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave, a god in his own mind)
Mon Oct 17 13:08:54 1994
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 08:34:29 -0500
Reply-To: "Dave, a god in his own mind" <anderda@ENG.AUBURN.EDU>
From: "Dave, a god in his own mind" <anderda@ENG.AUBURN.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199410170933.EAA10338@edison.eng.auburn.edu>
Delta has had 20 to 30 actives ever since I pledged in 1986. I don't
think that we could survive with less than twenty unless everybody was
extremely comitted and had no life other that A Phi O. I would guess
that in any chapter you have a core group of people who take most of the
responsibilities and do much of the work. This group usually seems to be
about one-third to one-half of the chapter. The rest of the people are
not as hard working and don't do as much. If you only have 15 people in
you chapter, then the burden of responsibility falls on too few. Another
problem with a small chapter is that one bad year of pledgeing or one
year in which lots of people graduate can destroy the chapters
membership.
On the other hand, bigger is not necessarily better. I've heard stories
of mega-chapters that have pledge classes so large that some of the
pledges don't even recognize each other. I don't see how you can
develope any significant degree of brotherhood when you don't even know
who all of the actives or your pledge brothers are, except for maybe
their names. Their have been times when we have visited some of these
giant chapters and have been mistaken for actives by actives from their
chapter.
In my opinion, the ideal chapter would have fifty brothers and pledge
classes of between twenty and twenty-five. Fifty brother gives you
enough people to fill all of the officers position, have good sized
committees and still allow for brothers who are less active. With fifty
people, you can have lots of chiefs and still enough people to be indians.
Hope this helps.
In BROTHERHOOD
David
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