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Originally Posted by cuteASAbug
Alphagamuga, do you know what members of your chapter smoke weed, drop e, snort, etc.? Do you know which ones smoke? Do you know which ones drink underage? Do you know when each one of them is doing each one of those things? Do you really think that it's possible for girls in a sorority, especially in a medium-large sized chapter to know this information about each of their members? I completely agree with you that risk management should be about preventing deaths, but sometimes there is only so much information that you can know about a member, especially if she goes out of her way to hide things from the chapter, and I don't know about you, but I joined a sorority to have 40 sisters, not 40 policemen.
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Nobody wants a policeman around until you're about to be the victim a crime and then you're probably really happy to see him. I think the same is drug for risk management. It's troublesome and invasive until a member dies or is seriously injured in a manner related to risk management, and then everybody wishes they'd done something differently.
I'm sure I wouldn't have appreciated a lot of drug and alcohol related investigations in my chapter when I was in college,* and I'm sure my perspective is different because I'm long out of college and am almost realistically old enough to have a kid in college.
But it seems to me that we do know when people are doing dangerous stuff, maybe not every sister in a chapters if the chapter is really big, but if someone has a problem it can be obvious at events. It will often be visible to a person's roommates or their friends. I think it's pretty rare that people so effectively hide their drug use or alcohol abuse that no one in the chapter knows, even without an investigation.
I don't think the choice is police state vs. free for all.
*although I don't really think drugs were a big problem in our chapter. It doesn't really matter though. I know we had underage drinking and people who made bad decisions about drinking and driving (or more exactly riding with others who had been drinking) when they were out not at GLO events.