Ask Chaty - Post #2

Today's AskChaty article is brought to you by what I originally thought was Spam. I got an email from an account named, "gmail" with the subject, "Are you the mafia." Kind of afraid to open it, fearing it was a trojan horse or a virus. I opened it anyway and noticed it was from an account with the email address "seanakaiser," so I'm going to assume it was truly from a Brother.

The original concept of this series was to answer one serious question and one joke question. This post though, I am going to do something a little different. The question brought to me by "seanakaiser" affords me the opportunity to answer the same question in three ways; the serious answer, the joke answer, and the Sicilian answer.

The email posed to me:

Subject: Are you the mafia?
How do I join the Chapter Advisor Committee?
Rumor is, the infrastructure is very similar to the mafia. And, I'm interested in the position of enforcer. Is it currently vacant, and could you provide the job description?
If not, what other ways could I contribute and give back to the chapter?
But seriously, how do I join the mafia? I swear I won't tattle

The serious answer:
The Chapter Advisor is chosen by the Chapter and it's his duty to set up a Chapter Advisor Committee which, currently, are 3 gentlemen who are tasked to aide the chapter in Membership, Finance, and Fraternity Education. Now, how does one join the Advisory Committee? One can be part, usually, by 1 of two ways. Either you ask to join or the Chapter Advisor asks you.

The current Chapter Advisor has selected 2 people already to serve along with him, regardless of whether they want to or not. Brother Matt Bratsch is serving as Fraternity Education Counselor and Brother Marco Inskip is the Finance Counselor.

If you are looking for other ways to get involved... well... hoping to not sound like we at this blog are beating a dead horse, but the NJE Corp is always looking for help. Want to set up a social event? Want to set up a fundraiser? Want to join and do nothing? There's a place for you! But if you really want to know more, set aside about 7 hours. and ask Brother Pelletier. I'm sure he's got flyers, brochures, a PowerPoint presentation, and for those RTF majors, a coloring book.

The joke answer:
If this was set up like the Mafia's infrastructure, trust me, some of you would have been whacked a long time ago. Not that we here at Ask Chaty condone any of this.
But, now that I think of it, isn't the Fraternity structure as a whole kind of resemble the Mob. Each Chapter is its own Family, run by the Boss (GP) and all his Capos (P, AG, etc...). And if you want to be the enforcer, well, I guess the position of Phu is right for you.

The Sicilian answer:
There is no such thing as the Mafia.

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