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Old 02-02-2006, 12:09 PM
Firehouse Firehouse is offline
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With respect, you are wrong. Bad behavior can be a reason for de-recognition, but not bad taste or other arbitrary reasons. Check with Fraternal Law and other related projects.
The Greeks are benefitting from efforts years ago by groups considered radicals then, generally mainstream now, demanding university recognition. Feminists, racial clubs and groups, homosexuals, all pushed for recognition.
A public institution cannot tell you your club the members has to do so much community service or achieve a given grade point or jump through a series of politically correct hoops.
I'm not an attorney. Check with a civil rights lawyer. We have, and I can assure you the schools powers are much more limited that they will admit. Why do you think schools prefer to go through the IFC instead of just imposing things directly? It's so they can say, "Well, it's not us. The students made these rules themselves."
The problem they run into with Greeks is that they DON'T apply the same campus standards across the board. They wouldn't dream of requiring, say, the Communist Revolutionary Youth Brigade to do so much community service or maintain a group GPA.
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