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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Although it's not clear, I think it's pretty clear. (if that makes sense)
To say specifically, “Don’t wear your letters to a fraternity party,” then creates room for someone to say, “Well, what about at the bar?” … then they specifically mention the bar, and then someone is bringing an AST mug to a friend’s house to get wasted. Then they have to specifically say each and every item you cannot have at these events and so on and so forth.
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Then DO that. List every instance. Honestly, it's not that hard. It's the same thing as the hazing policies - they're so ambiguous that they can either CYA or hang you out to dry.
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
IMO, it’s basically saying “anywhere alcohol has the potential to (obviously) be abused, don’t wear anything having to do with the sorority.” If anyone wants to try to work around that somehow, be my guest, but I’d strongly advise against it.
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Actually, no, that isn't what it's saying at all.
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
And yes, someone could get wasted sitting at the bar in Applebee’s, but there’s a big difference in wearing your badge out to a dinner where the guy across the restaurant from you is denied another beverage, and wearing a lettered t-shirt to a fraternity party where you go every week and know that half the people there get sloshed. To compare the two is kind of silly.
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But the way the policy is written - "being in a location where alcohol is abused" - fits it perfectly. If someone was being vengeful and really wanted to bring a sister up to standards, they could do so in that instance and it would fit the policy. The policy doesn't say that the person has to be sitting next to you, it just says "a location."
I'm not picking on AST here, I'm sure many if not most Greek orgs have similar ambiguous policies on a variety of things.