[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by PGD-GRAD

MEA CULPA! I realize that after hearing about how different recruitment is in the South, I immediately labeled VCU as that. Being Greek in one region or another doesn’t matter—if it ever did.
And you are ALL CORRECT. Things have—and are—changing, sadly not always for the better. I know ALL young people are capable of committing crimes, I just prefer to think the best.
I will say this—as a 25+ year advisor, I sat and tried to think how I would handle this if it were my group. My first inclination would be to walk away. But that’s not me.


I’m curious: any advisors want to weight in on how they’d react to this? Because no matter what you’d say, the chapter you’d grown to love is no more. Yet I know there are always members who were in the dark and are devastated.

I agree. I don’t think it matters where someone joined their greek letter organization or where they went to school or whatnot. People place too much emphasis on that. A lot of the decisions folks make are based on their upbringing. Organizations are comprised of individual people, regardless of the region, and each of those individual people have their own internal struggles.

I’m not an advisor, but I believe it’s so important for young men in my fraternity to understand the progression of things and how things happen because nothing just happens. Everything happens for a reason. For instance, the current condition of your (in general) life is a result of your past decisions and actions. But that’s only on the surface. If you really want to know the foundation of the decisions and actions that are responsible for your current place in life, it’s important to understand the internal motivating factors. None of that is based on where you went to school, what greek letter organization you pledged, or where you pledged — the reason why some of those young ladies were selling and using drugs.