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Eupolis,
Sorry, no.
I’m not heading off to some ivory tower in Columbus to join hands with a bunch of isolated bureaucrats and sing kumba-yah. That may give them and their twitchy attorneys a warm fuzzy, but I’m pissed about this and the Kappas actives should be too.
As my friend Mr. Earp said (in a surprising burst of eloquence), the largely anti-greek news media would indeed have a field day with this, and it is a black eye for all greeks. It’s my issue as much as it is Kappa’s, and I am entitled to my reaction. And I do indeed believe that someheated backlash here is productive.
Plenty of people will contact their HQ to extol our online Kappas and their wonderful virtues, and to espouse the Greekchat community and its numerous benefits. Fine and dandy. But part of being a policy-maker in an established and respected group of upstanding educated women is taking responsibility for your actions. When you do something stupid, you should expect to be challenged on it. Quickly and loudly. If you read Kappa’s statement of their objectives and ideals in the “About KKG” section of the website with this fiasco in mind, the words printed there become laughable.
This policy is unproductive since it obviously doesn’t restrict imposters or disgruntled Kappas from posting derogatory remarks. It is glaringly arbitrary since it doesn’t deal with the numerous other public forums to which Kappas regularly contribute (eg. being interviewed by the media about their philanthropy project, submitting a letter to the editor of the school paper, and so on). The decision was clearly taken by people who do not understand the problem, since anyone who by now “has not heard of Greekchat and other online forums“ is obviously out of touch. It is almost 2003 and they're just getting around to realizing that the internet and its associated risks exist? And from my perspective it looks like this decision has not even been run through the proper legislative channels, making it appear even more unilateral and reactionary.
In the wise words of Cosmo Kramer, “I must say, this seems capricious and arbitrary”.
In fact, this is SO utterly ridiculous that I keep thinking it is some sort of prank or experiment. Alas, my calendar reads November 13 and not April 1.
So again, not just no but HELL NO.
Kappas, what does your ritual say about this? There’s your answer.
wptw
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