[honeychile]

Originally posted by Eupolis
Hey everyone,

Please realize that it is utterly unproductive to assail Kappa Kappa Gamma for this decision. It seems they have high-level decisionmakers who are anxious about what risks the internet poses to their organization. You are not going to help KappaKittyCat or her sisters by attacking the organization. Instead, you are only going to give their decisionmakers more reasons to be nervous.

DO show how being able to participate in GreekChat has helped you be a more panhellenically-minded person (here I'm using the word to refer to all GLOs).

DO show how others' participation in GreekChat has affected your understanding and respect of Greek life nationally.

DO show all the other ways that by being able to participate in something like GreekChat, we have become better Greeks.

DO NOT assail and rebuke Kappa headquarters for its decision; simply offer your hope that it is temporary, offer your belief that Kappas' participation here serves Kappa Kappa Gamma well on the whole, explain what they and their members will miss out on the longer the moratorium lasts, and offer productive ideas, so that they can establish a policy that will balance out their worries without cutting them off from the rest of the Greek world.

If you show how GreekChat can be supportive by offering Kappa ideas to help them sort this out, you will by those very actions prove one of the great strengths of GreekChat -- inter-GLO supportiveness. People here are usually fiercely panhellenic. If you show that, it will be difficult for them to say that they risk great embarassment here.

If instead you use this as an opportunity to assail an organization for what we believe is a dangerous or at best a harmful decision, you will make them even more nervous. This is so even if you write genuinely hoping to convince them that they're better off choosing a different course of action.

So, please choose your words carefully, and be as supportive of the entire organization as possible. Show them that they don't have to worry, show them what they will miss out on, and this will probably resolve much more quickly than if you use harsher words.

The only thing I would add to this is, if you are writing to any corporation and plan to be taken seriously, PLEASE use spell check!

honeychile