Alcohol violations are often due to underage drinking. In many sororities, providing alcohol to underage members is construed as hazing. Also, it doesn't matter. RISK MANAGEMENT is as risk management does. These are all still behaviors that endanger Chico students and make other Greeks, whether local, national, NPC, NIC, NPHC, multicultural, etc... look the same. When one of us screws up, WE ALL LOSE.

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And this is considered "okay and accepatable behavior? Later on in your post you ask what we would do in your shoes-- stop binge drinking and educate the student population on binge drinking. Increase risk management practices and take the damn drink out of Tommy's hand after his Nth shot of jaeger!


It doesn't matter. Chi Tau is a Greek Lettered club. This makes it look Greek. The vast majority of the US are not GLO members and they don't care if this was a national, a local or an underground renegade society. "IT'S ALL GREEK" to them.

Take accountability. Stop binge drinking. Respect one another and know that your membership in your GLO isn't one founded on beating one another with paddles and sisterhood isn't formed by drinking one another under the table. Institute a series of interactive co-sponsored membership education trainings where you teach one another about hazing, alcohol, drugs and the consequences, and where you have an open and honest dialogue about what is happening at your university and what you as GREEKS (local, national and underground or aboveground!) can do to stop it.

If I were any of those people, I would set forth a series of ultimatums, make the campus dry and set a zero-tolerance policy for hazing and alcohol abuse-- you're caught and you're expelled. Period.

And although it's not my place as an ADPi to say this and even though I adore the Chico ADPi's I have met, if I had the power, I'd pull ADPi out of Chico. I don't want my letters represented at a school where the students treat each other this way, and I don't want my sisters exposed to this kind of behavior. I'd want to protect my sisters.

They have been stripped of their university and national recognition. The real Greeks will have nothing to do with them. This has been stated over and over again. What on earth else are they supposed to do, blow up their house with them in it?

I feel the need to say this to you VERY clearly.

It is NOT normal for a college to send, as you are saying, 6 people a week to the hospital for alcohol related illness. It is NOT healthy or conducive to educational advancement for students to be drinking in such and unhealthy way.

Because you asked for my opinion. :D
I would close the Greek system down entirely. I agree with adpiucf that I would not want my letters anywhere near Chico for the safety of both my sisters and the national organization. As a university I would also put pressure on bar owners, liquor stores and the local police department to help ensure that everything we being done to prevent underage drinking. If that means having to use two forms of ID, or scan every drivers license, or do random check points, I would do it. I think it is time for the city to crack down. Right now it sounds like, 'Hey welcome to Chico, a nice place except for 11pm-3am on Thurs through Saturday. Please don't hit the drunk college kids.' That cannot be helping the city prosper....

Anyhow, more people will continue to get hurt until drastic changes are made. You think being Greek is not going to be fun because of the changes. I question what types of events are going on at Chico.

Just to give you some more numbers, a semester is what 16 weeks? so you are in college for 32 weeks per year (give or take) You are saying that 6 people per week go to the hospital, so that is a grand total of 192 people being hospitalized. Then you add drinking holidays. Halloween (1day), Superbowl (1day), St. Paddy's (1day), Finals (1 week), Mid-terms (2? days), Greek week, spring break (5 days). So roughly add another 20 drinking holidays. (which do not include birthdays, 21st birthdays, break-ups and any other holidays) Another 20 days, at 2 people per day being hospitalized, you end up with around 232 people per year being hospitalized. (give or take some numbers)

And you want us to cut you some slack?

I'm getting off of my soapbox, but your campus has a lot of work to do. I honestly wish you the best of luck and don't envy the amount of work. I think you will find it all easier to manage once the entire community commits themselves to changing the culture that has permeated that campus. Best of luck.

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It's irrelevant-- the outside world doesn't give a damn whether this group was a "real" Greek Lettered Organization in the sense that "legitimate" Greek societies designate. And the outside world is keeping up with the war on Terror, missing teens in Aruba, nonfat lattes at Starbucks, their own lives and primetime TV. They're not going to hone in on the small details of whether a fraternity hazing death was committed by a "national" group on campus by the grace of God and the university administration... they just see "fraternity" "hazing." The perception still comes back to haunt all of us.

"They're" not supposed to do anything-- but the university, the community, the bars, the police, the national groups and the local students and their parents need to take accountability and set a measurable probation (which they are doing) to turn the students around, and crack down on the absurd norms that have developed at this campus (IE: sending 2 people to the hospital each week due to alcohol poisoning).

Exactly...they've set goals and are going to work towards them, so why keep harping on something they can't change and let them try to go forward?

If there was a rogue ADPi chapter out there calling itself Alpha Pi that did all manner of unmentionable things, your EO and the school had already done all they could to discipline them and people still kept throwing it in your face, how would that make you feel?

Chico State Requires Alcohol Abuse Prevention Course
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I hope I'm being cynical and that these online alcohol courses really do some good.

But every time I hear about something like this, all I can think of is the episode of WKRP where they were doing an on-air reflex test to show the dangers of overimbibing and Johnny Fever's reflexes got better and quicker with each additional drink.