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UGAB/Convention take important actions
During the day on Thursday Leadership Institute delegates learned of the number of important actions taken by the Undergraduate Advisory Board (UGAB), which met the day before. At their Wednesday meeting, the UGAB elected three new undergraduate members of the Fraternity’s Board of Directors and approved several recommendations sure to have lasting impact on the Fraternity.
The three undergraduates elected to the Board where, Christopher M. Andrews, Kansas ’91, Jeffrey D. Barrom, Washington State ’91 and Bruce P. Batista, Miami ’91.
The UGAB recommended to the undergraduate Convention the passage of a new Fraternity fees structure, a Membership Development plan and progressive new alcohol policy. All three of these where passed by the 156th Convention which met on Friday night.
The new fees structure updates Fraternity undergraduate member dues which had remained virtually unchanged during the decade of the 1980s. Under this structure all newly initiated members of the Fraternity will now receive an official DU badge included in the cost of their initiation fee.
The Fraternity’s new Membership Development plan will help to facilitate DU’s need for continued internal growth. The program lays the groundwork for a system of goals and incentives in the area of yearly membership recruitment. The goals, which will be set annually by the General Fraternity, will be based on factors such as past recruitment totals, campus situations and current chapter size and stability.
Perhaps the most important action taken by the UGAB and ultimately the Convention was the recommendation and passage of a Constitutional Amendment pertaining to alcoholic beverages. The amendment, effective August 3, 1991, states, ” … no alcoholic beverages may be purchased through the chapter treasury or with chapter funds nor may the purchase of alcoholic beverages for members or guests be undertaken or coordinated by a chapter or by any member in name of or on the behalf of the chapter.”
The amendment brings Delta Upsilon in line with what many others in the Greek world have done in the way of risk management and alcohol policy.
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