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Originally posted by Educated
Well, I couldn't find the article.. but here is my take.
If I was a member of the UCSC Muslim American club, and it turned out two of the members happened to be terrorists, I would be PISSED if my local paper ran things like, "UCSC Muslim Club turns out to be terrorists!"
I would then probably write a letter to the local paper if my ENTIRE organization got kicked off campus because of what two people did. If the paper was making my org out to be bad guys based on the actions of a few, I WOULD express my disapproval.
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GLO's and other clubs on campus are two entirely different worlds. Greeks are often held to a higher standard than everyone else...*especially* on campuses where there is already a very anti-greek sentiment.
Fraternities and sororities get suspended all the time, and most of the time it's because of what just a few members did...not what an entire chapter of 80 people did.
Here's a quote from sugarandspice replying to pretty much the same topic:
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Unfortunate as it may be, we as Greeks are held to higher standards than the rest of the school population, and if a couple members of our group do something stupid, the whole group is punished. That may not be fair, but it's what always happens and we have to put up with it anyway. Furthermore, just because the group is a local fraternity doesn't mean it doesn't affect anybody else. We've already had UCSC Greeks come on here and say they've been feeling the anti-Greek backlash because of this incident. And as for the rest of us on other campuses, it's just one more incident that adds to the anti-Greek sentiment. Negative Greek press affects all of us.
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