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Originally Posted by Kevin
Jesus Christ... the national organization has suspended the chapter's charter pending investigation? What more do you want? The CIA to be sent in with waterboards?
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Now who's trying to be obtuse Kevin? I was very clearly replying to a specific comment of yours:
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Originally Posted by Kevin
I hope y'alls' national organizations responded to these incidents the same way mine did--with memos reminding chapters to implement programming which we already have in place.
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Yes, we all have policies and programs in place—some of them really good ones. Sending memos about them is a band-aid.
What I'm saying is that we have a PR problem. The headlines and news stories are what people are seeing. Some who are paying attention see us reacting—sometimes strongly, sometimes tepidly. But the fact remains, we have a PR problem. To fix that we have to be proactive and creative in ways we haven't always had to be before. We need to take responsibility for trying to get things to the place that when people hear "fraternity," they don't automatically think "privileged, racist, mysogenist frat boys."
To be clear, it can't just be PR. Almost every statement issued by a fraternity when these things happen says something along the lines of "these actions are not consistent with the values of ABC fraternity." We need to let the wider community see us exemplifying our values so that when we say that, it doesn't just sound like damage control. Sure we do that in some ways now, but we that doesn't mean we can't do more, or that there may not be new ways that would be effective.
We say when these things happen that they're aberrations and don't represent the majority of fraternity members or chapters. We need to back that up in a way that when we say it, people have reason the believe it.
I really don't see why this is a controversial concept. Seems pretty basic to me.
And Sen, agreed—men, not boys.