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Originally posted by SurfinDBeach
Forgive me for my bluntness, and with all due respect, but I think that's a horrible thing for people to do if it is to be your FIRST STEP...
Those type of actions should be the last on your list after
1) talking to the officers in charge -president first, then the officer in charge of scholarship.
2) talking to the Alumni board
Telling nationals is the LAST resort, because in today's age of political correctness, chapters get busted for EVERYTHING...
There should be more respect for the chapter itself...
When all else fails, then go to nationals - but that should be the Last thing...
As for initiation, the word "initiation" that I know stands for the day and ritual ceremony that enters you into the fraternity (learning the ritual/secrets/etc)...
Perhaps because the guy was a pledge, he didn't know the difference - but all things before initiation is considered "pledging."
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I respectfully disagree for several reasons.
You first talk about discussing this with the officers and the alumni board. As to the officers, he did confront them with it, they told him that this was the way they did things, they didn't see eye to eye, so he quit.
As to the alumni board, my guess is either the alumni board for this particular chapter is inactive, or they are so out of the loop that they're irrelevant. No self-respecting alumni board would let their chapter fall into such a state of disrepair.
That said -- part of the mission of HQ's is to make sure that one chapter of their organization doesn't hurt another. I'm assuming that Triangle probably has pretty low insurance rates compared to other national groups. If they want to keep it that way, their HQ's need to know about chapters that aren't pulling their weight. If the "I-Week" period is 3 weeks long, and if that period is meant to interfere with studies, you can guess that there are also some serious risk management issues that need to be looked into.
Alums are there to help with those things, but they have a duty to inquire and know what is happening in their chapter. If they don't do that, and if they don't know, they need to be replaced.
In this day and age, chapters are busted for "everything" because "everything" can pose a serious threat to the coffers of those individual chapters as well as the entire national organization, and if they're part of one of these nouveaux self-insuring groups, one lapse could sink several organizations.
Putting it that perspective, alerting HQ to some of these issues would be the responsible thing to do.