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Mart,
Now you're gonna have to slow down and clarify a few things for us here.
You didn't tell us how your local IFC "holds your charter in their hands." In your most recent post you said that "1 quick email and we're on probation with IFC..." and that if you withdraw from your campus IFC then you lose your charter. I'm really not trying to sound negative here, but that sounds like something has happened (before the mess you're telling us about) that's got your chapter on the hotseat. If you don't want to give details, fine...but the way you are talking doesn't sound like everything was hunky dory until these new IFC officers started. So what is the deal? Has there been trouble in the past?
It's your choice if you don't want to talk with your Greek advisor...but you may be shooting yourself in the foot. What about your chapter advisor (please tell me he's not a brother that graduated last year....)? What about your faculty advisor? Tell your faculty advisor the situation, and have him either talk to the other chapter advisors, or have him talk to the Greek advisor directly and get the info that you need. Have him get a copy of the bylaws. I also think the email is not relevant. Who forwarded it to you, and how do you know it wasn't edited somehow to skew the meaning? If you weren't part of the email communication, then you really don't know the context of everything. There's lots of things that aren't communicated effectively in a typed message. My advice: forget the email...pretend it doesn't exist...if it wasn't your IFC rep and your chapter involved don't bring it up. It's not going to help you at this stage in the game.
Other males can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding of FIPG rules, you shouldn't be having open, uncontrolled parties (meaning that the alcohol isn't contained in a certain area, entry to the event isn't controlled, no guest lists, etc.) anyway...so I'm not sure what the problem with the rule is. But then again I don't understand exactly what the rule says...no offense, but your paraphrasing isn't clear.
Give us some documentation...what EXACTLY does the rule say? Where is it located? Is this a school rule that's over your IFC's head? Are you on a public or private campus? School owned or chapter owned housing?
PsychTau
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