One bad apple spoils the whole bunch?
Hard to say. Well to try to speak for the brothers at the dartmouth chapter, i am the editor of my chapter's newsletter (the Zulu) and the whole intent of the newsletter is fot brothers eyes only, how these copies got printed or out of the hands of the chapter, i can't say (cause i don't know) and i can't really say for sure if they are factual or not, but from my opinon (take it for what you will) it does seem to be a mock issue intent on making fun of the actives, not to be discriminating in any sort of way. Sure it may have been smarter for the brothers to not mention any of the ladies names or even bring up the subject of date rape (huge faux pas) but you have to look at the fact they probablly didn't expect the public to get thier hands on it, again i'm not making excuses for them at all. Punishment must be made for their actions, they must have been smarter with what they did. I know my university paper makes a mock issue at the end of every year for the students, making fun of the dean and anything else, but they also try to do it in an intellegent and more tactfull way. I can say from what i know of the gentlemen that these men can prove to be quite inetellegent, because of the paper i read that they wrote to the university about a year or more ago, concerning the universitiy's intent to make all greek organizations go co-ed, as soon as i can trak the article down i will post it for you all to see. All i ask from you all is to take all you read from this with a grain of salt, wait till ALL the facts come to light before passing a true judgement.
The Zeta Psi fraternity of North America has a long tradition of excellence, we consider ourselves to be the gentlemans fraternity, the ivy league fraternity, because for a time we were at every ivy league school. We are a small fraternity right now, but this is because we wish to be part of universities that we feel display the qualities that we deem worthy of Zeta Psi, sounds elitist eh? Well to me it says we strive for execellence. We have been around since 1847, one of the oldest greek organizations still in exsistance, we were the first fraternity to go national in 1870 when we expanded our brotherhood to berkley, and then another first was we were the FIRST international fraternity when we expanded in to Canada in 1879 at the unversity of toronto. So i leave you with this thought, please don't judge us all for something very dumb that a few brothers at one of our chapters may have done, we have a long line of tradition and excellence, heck we've been around for over 150 years, we had to have done someting right. Please wait till you hear it all, before you bash the orgainization i love.
Thank you
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Edgar A. Hartling
Zulu and Constitution Contact
Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America - Alpha Mu Chapter
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia