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Originally posted by lonnboe
If I were a person wachting and had little prior knowledge about fraternities, I would also question the "returning to core values" statement that president of NIC made. What are we returning to? I know our core values and assume those of other fraternities are of good intentions, but what about the general public?
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I thought that this came through contextually, but perhaps that was just me. Two or three of the administrator types talked about returning to core or founding values, and they tended to be the same people who talked about the seriousness of ritual and the values taught there. At least one even elaborated, talking about scholarship and making better men.
What I would have liked to have seen was a concrete example, like the Phi Delta Theta pledge or president (or alum) talking about the values or principles of Phi Delta Theta. You know, "Phi Delta Theta stands for ...," or "The foundational principles of Phi Delta Theta are ...," or "Phi Delta Theta taught me ...." Surely they have a way to talk about this without breaching secrecy.
Speaking of secrecy, did anybody else catch that, early on when the narrator was giving some general info on fraternities, right as he said "They all have secret mottos," the Delta Upsilon coat-of-arms appeared on the screen? LOL.