Let me preface by saying I'm not a member & when I was in undergrad many years ago
everything was above ground...
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what are greeks doing to help students get better grades? Any study tables? Programs on how to succeed in college?
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Why is up to fellow students to encourage others to get their act together?? Your tuition bill and looming student loan repayment schedule should be all the motivation you need to get your act together! "How to succeed/How to study" are things that one should attend either in orientation or PRIOR to getting to school. Its truly not up to fellow students to encourage each other to stay in school - if the quality of students is truly an issue then the problem is with admissions NOT with BGLO's being too strict.
Students today are overly concerned (IMO) with GPA's and the focus has contributed to over inflated grades as oppossed to genuinely well rounded students who are involved with a couple of orgs and maintaing a B+/A- avg.
If the chapters at your school were really doing nothing then the chapter would die out wouldn't it? Like I said it was different at my school - interest was earned by all through the programs they held throughout the year. Those that knew what they wanted to pursue would be sure to attend everything but it was not unheard of for all students regardless of desire to go to another org's event just to see what they were doing (even those with no interest in greek life at all). Yeah some shallow freshmen would always make a premature declaration based on the most recent step show winners but they would soon learn that ALL of the chapters were deeper than that & if you didn't get to know them you would never get anywhere.
It seems that today's youth want EVERYTHING handed to them...