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I completely understand what the Greek members at Lehigh are going through. At Millersville University (in PA) we have a very similar system they call "The Five Star Greek Organization Evaluation". It's nothing more than a bunch of shit where the administration is trying to control fraternities and sororities. We get evaluated on criteria such as our new member education, campus involvement (holding events for the student body), community involvement, GPA, educational programming, philanthropy, with the ranking depending on the amount as well as the percent of brother participation.
While the universities themselves DO have an obligation to their students to encourage good grades and shit like that, they all too often fail to recognize Greek Organizations as private organizations. I can understand the universities pushing the organizations to be as active on campus as possible, however in our assesment they award or withold points for pointless stuff like putting down the address of our advisor and alumni contacts, or the number of personal and chapter awards we have earned. Also, they witheld a few points from my chapter for not telling them the contents of our new member education program; which we keep very secret from everybody outside the fraternity.
luckily for my university, unlike lehigh, Millersville does not publish the results as they are kept private between the fraternities/sororities and the greek advisor and proper administration. But even still -- if you fail to obtain 4 or 5 stars in every category and in total, your chapter is placed on probation. You are placed on suspension if you receive a zero in any one category though -- so basically, if your chapter hadn't received any national or campus awards, you would be suspended - even if you just started up.
I think part of the problem, or issue, may be the areas in which these evaluations take place. From what I know, it commonly happens at small universities and colleges. And in respect to lehigh and Millersville, they are both in highly conservative communities -- which seems to always serve as an impressive obstacle for fraternities/sororities.
Millersville University
Lambda Chi Alpha
Delta-Tau Zeta
High Secretary
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