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Originally posted by ladygreek
Some issue? No all of the issues. They were more severe pre-MIP. And trust the underground was deeper before, because there was no the fear of being caught, since there were no offical rules.
The HBCUs threatened in a formal letter to ban all HPHCs if something wasn't done. MIP was instituted to reach a compromise that would keep us on those campuses. Trust me, I was there.
And you know what? A good pledge period/MIP doesn't need to entail all of the hazing. Look at the number of folx initiated pre-MIP who aren't active with their orgs because of what went down.
MIP wasn't done lightly and without a lot of study. It took a few years for all of the NPHC to come on board. Too many deaths and maimings were happening. So the lawsuits and pending crisis forced us all to adopt our own versions of MIP.
And very honestly I think it is an injustice to anyone who goes through a strictly MIP process to be labeled as "paper.' (not that you said that.) But each previous decade of pledges could say the same thing about subsequent pledges, MIP or not. And that is what makes prospects yield to things they know are not right. Us old heads need to quit glamouizing what we went through, because it wasn't nice. Yet we didn't have the recourse then that prospects have now.
So again, imo, the issue is more of things being communicated more widely, than an upsurge. And what you have now is a reporting of suspensions and expulsions on some national websites of chapters and individuals that should give prospects information for making an iformed choice. Maybe everyone should institute that. Because before MIP there was NO regulation. of such.
Yes, we are still at a cross roads, but MIP is not to blame. Human behavior is. And that is a whole 'nother issue about who we bring into our organiztions.
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To make a long story short, in my opinion this is a ticking time bomb. It’s just like if you have a child and that child keeps trying to tell you that something is wrong and you keep ignoring them & then you’re surprised when the problem escalates to a proportion that you’re not prepared to handle.... I hope we don’t wait until we are forced to try and resolve this before we look deeper into this.