[CarolinaCutie]

Originally posted by Firehouse
33girl: Listen to what she's saying - AND SHE'S JUST FINE WITH IT! Her school is going to determine just exactly what in their mind makes an acceptable chapter, and then reward or punish non-compliers by allowing some to take new members in the fall and others to be prevented from doing so. And she thinks this is perfectly keen. Dear God. I'm amazed that our nation has reamined free for this long.
It's not up to the university to tell us what was "the way our Founders wanted us to." The Founders of my fraternity did not intend to set up a social service organization. Service is a noble virtue, but it's not the basis of my fraternity. My fraternity belongs to our members, not to the university administration. Here's my offer: let the university administration create a fraternity just the way they want, and let me create my own the way I want. Then we'll see which fraternity the greatest numbers of ambitious men want to join.
33girl, it's not just housing impact. It's the idea of being told that freshmen cannot join, or that we cannot take who we want when we want. If they keep freshmen from participating in ANYTHING, then I can live with that. But if we're the ugly stepchildren to whom freshmen cannot risk exposure, then I raise a hellacious objection to that.
It concerns me deeply that some young students are willing - even eager - to give up control of their own chapters. It's not even that they knuckle under to administrative bullying. The most disheartening thing about dznat187 is her glib embrace of big brother. She doesn't even see it as bullying. To her, the school makes the rules and that's just fine.
Help me out here, 33girl. You've always been the smartest one.

You are so COMPLETELY right on this one.