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PM about to be sent.
For the public record though, I do not have any special insights and conclusions on this. I am a great believer that a chapter's active members, alumni and GF liasons are the ones to handle chapter matters.
I do not want to embed myself in this, just as I would not want other chapters embedding themselves in the doings of my chapter. I just wanted to put my comments out there in the hopes that the people who started this blog might change their minds.
While it is true that many would not have been aware of this situation, from the inside there is not a lot of information out there either- nor have I pressed for it- for the reasons I state above. So, the blog does not really do anything to provide info to those who are entitled to it (Alpha actives and alumni) in reaching a determination.
As an advisor, I try to encourage my chapter to approach their fraternity experience like a business. In many ways, being in a fraternity prepares you for professional interactions.
In this particular case, the primary driver of the blog seems to be a desire to get more information about the reasons for the member review. Agreeing with its findings or not is surely a matter of contention too, but what I have read indicates the most urgent desire is to get more info from GF.
And, looking at it from a real life perspective, the presence of the blog is only going to make it less likely that will happen. How the member review went down is something I know nothing about, nor it is my business- but I think it is safe to say that if those asking for the information are showing a willingness to broadcast chapter matters on the internet, then GF has no incentive to try and have a discussion with those individuals because they have no way of knowing if those individuals will make additional discussions public if they do not like what they hear.
I do not ever try to butt in on other chapters- I really don't. But then again, I have never seen anything like this blog before in response to a chapter's internal matters.
And I am just not sure it could do any good at all. If anything, it creates more harm.
As an active member I often had an inherent mistrust of GF and Housing Corps and all that- but with age and experience I know that these entities do care. And a chapter with a strong caring alumni base will have the best ally possible in dealing with internal strife.
Alpha chapter has such an alumni base- full of men who care deeply about the chapter and have devoted their time to other chapters around the country, including mine.
So while there may be particular aspects of this one process that need to be discussed for the better of future management, I cannot imagine how this blog is going to help in any way.
Right now it can still be possibly excused to some extent as frustrated young men who need someone to work with them on understanding what happened- or accepting it.
But if the disclosure gets much more detailed or starts naming names, then it will go beyond that and I do not think these young men will find a sympathetic ear because at that point it will look like something quite different, and it would then validate the presumption that these men were in the wrong all along.
JMHO.
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