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Originally Posted by Jen
I know that the rule for capitalization in titles is that if it precedes someone's name you capitalize (Senator Jones), but if it's describing it's lowercase (The senator arrived at noon). Somehow, this doesn't look right to me regarding Greek officer titles.
For example, I would write the following:
"The Vice President of Programming was ..."
or
"You can talk to our Social Chair about that."
I don't think it looks right as:
"The vice president of programming was..."
or
"You can talk to our social chair about that."
I feel like the capitals just ... look good lol. Oddly, I feel like the VP sentence needs capitalization but I could go either way with the social chair one.
I'm pretty sure lowercase is technically correct ... but does it HAVE to be?  How would you write them?
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Whether you're "correct" or not depends on what style you're using. What you described above, capitalizing before the name but not after is Associated Press (and possibly others), used by lots of media outlets. Other "styles" you might consider using may have different rules.