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Originally posted by Educated
If two of your sisters, over the summer, got caught shoplifting and Macy's and the University said "lets not take a chance, there is a lot of attention on us already" and booted all of you, after ALL of your hard work, you're telling me that you would say "Oh well, I should have been more responsible when determining the character of my sisters..."
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Ummmmm.... that's a TOTALLY different set of circumstances.
In your hypo, there's no TV camera following the girls because they are members of an organization. They weren't representing their organization when they got caught shoplifting.
The two members of DOC in question were representing their organization when they got caught. Of course it can be argued that they weren't representing DOC, but the fact is the MTV cameras were there BECAUSE they were a part of DOC. Had they not gotten caught on camera and acted outside the realm of DOC, then this may not be the same scenario. But they were, and they knew that they were, and that's why the uproar.
I hope that you can understand, even though you're not Greek, why all of us get so upset about this. When something like that makes headlines, it affects each and every greek out there. It makes us ALL look bad. This MTV Fraternity/Sorority Life has done a decent amount of damage to the reputations of greek life in the general public's eye. Hence why we also get upset when some other chapter of some org does something stupid that gets headlines- because it affects us all, on a daily basis.