[DeltAlum]

This is tough. On one hand, this woman seems to have some amount of sorrow that they lost their Chi-O charter. On the other, she freely admits to breaking the National rules and the law. And says she would continue to do it. And if Nationals doesn't like it, tough luck. It's the way it's always been. It's that attitude that flies in the face of this woman's pleading.

If the consultants really were smug and smirking, it's a sad commentary -- but we're hearing those descriptions from a young woman who certainly has an ax to grind, it would seem, with the sorority. We weren't there and don't know the whole truth.

Clearly, it would seem that the university felt good about the chapter. Is that because the chapter really was that good (while admitting to breaking the law, etc.), or was the school asleep at the switch here.

As regards parents being legally responsible, that is probably true whether the women signed any paper at all. There was a thread on this topic here on GC recently. Parents have been held responsible for their children's actions -- as have chapter advisors, house corporation members and national officers for the misdeeds of undergraduate members.

There must have been a reason for this "investigation" to have been staged. Can a national organization allow a "rogue" chapter to make it's own rules and live by it's own decisions if they are in direct opposition to what the other chapters are expected to do?

I have a huge amount of respect for Chi Omega nationally, and it will take more than the writings of one member who has openly admitted that she broke the rules to change that -- no matter how badly she feels she has been personally wronged.

If someone can offer proof that these women were somehow treated shabbily, I'll be happy to change my mind. But the evidence would have to be pretty convincing.