{"id":1772,"date":"2002-03-13T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2002-03-13T11:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2013-03-21T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T09:27:50","slug":"past-presidents-report-theta-chapters-return-will-require-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/past-presidents-report-theta-chapters-return-will-require-your-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Past President\u2019s Report Theta Chapter’s Return will Require Your Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theta Brothers,
\nIn the March 2001 Theta Data, I wrote, as president of the\u00a0Alumni Association, about the status of the chapter as seen\u00a0through the eyes of the Alumni Executive Board. We had many\u00a0real concerns at that time about the future of our great chapter.\u00a0A combination of circumstances brought us to a critical\u00a0juncture by the end of the school year in May as to what our options really were.\u00a0Major points included undergraduate (actives) behavior, OWU Greek rules and\u00a0requirements, and the position of the General Fraternity at Oxford. It was because\u00a0of these we needed to act before heading toward 2001-2002 with a very small\u00a0undergraduate group and a proven lack of commitment. It was at this point we\u00a0came to the decision to close the chapter and surrender the physical house use to\u00a0OWU. Under these conditions, the chapter is suspended\/disbanded but the Charter\u00a0is not revoked, allowing for a possible return to campus sometime in the future.<\/p>\n

There were understandable comments and criticism from a few Theta alumni,\u00a0but also substantial wide support from others for our action. Our house was given\u00a0to Alpha Sig whose members were living in the dorms. We understand they spent\u00a0about $200,000 on renovation. Pledging for this year has just concluded with\u00a0approximately 100 freshmen pledged (compared with 86 last year) to the 11 remaining national houses on campus. Several other houses are at risk due to size of\u00a0their chapters, financial and other problems. It is logical that further chapter losses\u00a0are possible on campus.<\/p>\n

What is our future at OWU? As dictated by the General Fraternity, new\u00a0chapters can only be colonized as \u201cMen Of Principle\u201d houses. To do that requires a\u00a0substantial organizing effort by the alumni. Miami Alpha has done it over the past\u00a0four to five years. They started with five men and now have well over fifty undergraduates and a large and strong pledge class. It can be done and our goal is to position Theta, if possible, to attempt such a return. Alumni support in many ways\u00a0will be needed to do it. As the Theta Alumni Association communicates with you in\u00a0the future, they will lay out plans for your consideration.<\/p>\n

~ Dick DeVos \u201954<\/p>\n

\"Dick<\/a>

Dick DeVos \u201954<\/p><\/div>\n

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Theta Brothers, In the March 2001 Theta Data, I wrote, as president of the\u00a0Alumni Association, about the status of the chapter as seen\u00a0through the eyes of the Alumni Executive Board. We had many\u00a0real concerns at that time about the future of our great chapter.\u00a0A combination of circumstances brought us to a critical\u00a0juncture by the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-march-2002-theta-data","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}