Eight Brothers Walk Into a Bar…

I think we’ll all figure out the identities eventually…I’m fairly certain I know who Euclid’s Dog is (and Turf Herder, of course)

As for losing prospectives…no chapter ever loses *many* that I’ve heard about, and I can’t say that the chapters ask for much “official” explanation for their leaving. When they do have to bow out,  it sounds like it’s usually for time commitment things – classloads are too heavy, they have to do things for scholarships, churches, parents get sick, etc. Some decide that the fraternity wasn’t something that they were really serious about (which is better than them figuring it out after initiation), sometimes they run into a money crunch. A few (for the chapters that either voted twice on prospectives (once when they became a prospective and again before they were initiated)  or voted upon only before 3rd) would fail the final vote.

I think of all the stories I’ve heard from around the country, I’ve only heard of a couple prospectives who decided that the fraternity wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and stepped away from the program, DURING the program.  It’s bad when it happens, and usually related to something not involving actual education.

Then there are the “pin n runs” as someone once called them. Those who’d be initiated and then fall off the face of the planet. Most of these are sad, but don’t come back to bite a chapter in the ass. However, there was a horror story about a brother who was initiated, and then immediately started telling people that which they’d learned in third degree.

Although, I knew a brother from another district who figured out most of TBSigma’s secrets just from paying attention, so it’s not impossible that it wouldn’t happen the other way around.