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I agree with Betarulz! that self-goverance is the way to go. However, rush shirts that degrade women are immature and present a negative image of fraternities. I once saw a rush shirt that had a drawing of a naked woman barely covering herself with sheet and the shirt said "She Was A Community Service Project." I think that lacks taste completely. I am a big proponent of first amendment rights so a fraternity or sorority can have whatever they want on their rush shirts, but just because we have the right to say what we want does not mean we should lose all cognizance of what is tasteful and how what we say reflects not just on our individual chapters and organizations, but greekdom as a whole.
Before I became an Alpha I reserched fraternities for weeks and months, and not the just the NPHC groups. One of the reasons I joined Alpha Phi Alpha was because I was drawn to the image portrayed by the organization of being gentlemen, of being professional. This is not to say that other organizations did not portray similar ideals as Alpha Phi Alpha, but I was turned off by some based on the image they put out. When my own brothers act in a manner that I feel is not becoming of an Alpha, I let them know. As a greek, I feel that rush shirts as I described above are unacceptable, and fraternities that wear such shirts are doing all greeks (and all men for that matter) a disservice.
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