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Originally Posted by furmanbeta
So you're all aware, the blog has been updated to give a concrete series of events. It's a pretty interesting read if you get the chance.
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Thanks for the good word- I had given up checking figuring it would go away.
Seems this is much as I figured.
1. This post does in fact confirm that this whole matter started within the chapter.
2. Despite that, it seems like AO and the advisors are all bad guys and not one nice thing can be said about them. They are also named individually.
3. All of the disciplined members are presented in the highest terms- not a word against any of them or even an admission there might have been some bad judgement calls. And while the AO and advisors involved all get named, we have yet to see a list of those who were disciplined.
4. The post also confirms, as I suspected, that the entire intent of having the two separate houses (I did not know one was rented from a Beta alum) was to circumvent the chapter risk management policy- which many ACTIVES clearly did not like because they instigated this whole process.
Taking the new pledges over to an annex house and having communal alcohol is absolutely an RM violation under the chapter's own rules- and puts the chapter, advisors and GF at the same legal risks as if that event had happened in the house. That is very clearly where you go from having a house rented by some Betas and get into the territory of having a Beta house "on the side".
Whether any of us agree with the dry house concept, some actives at this chapter clearly felt they were entitled to circumvent a policy that was in place when they first pledged! If they did not like it, they could have pledged somewhere else.
5. Again we hear about how the keg was empty and how so few people knew about the alleged incidents. These are excuses, not defenses.
The keg was on the porch in plain sight. Empty or full does not matter.
And perhaps noone knew about the alleged incidents because a small faction of the chapter chose to establish 2 annex houses to do things that clearly many in the chapter would not agree with.
I read this and I see the anger of a small group of people who hate our GF, who hate their advisors and alumni who make the chapter possible, and even seem to have disregard for many of their own brothers. Is this a debate with two sides or some malcontents who have resentment towards everyone else?
And who on the other side directly involved is going to post in response? What is there to gain. These young men have created a platform from which they can say whatever they want and they know darn well that the opposing view can do nothing to effectively and meaningfully respond.
They should consider themselves lucky to be on alumni status- that is a gift at this point. The original incidents might not have been that severe, but the attitude we are seeing now suggests there was quite a bit of after-the fact denial and lack of contrition that made this far worse- all crowned with a vicious online smear campaign.