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Just a note for anyone who's not already aware--
If your chapter commits any kind of risk management violation, violates the alcohol policy at the local or national level (allows underage members to drink alcohol, has an open keg, etc--whatever the rule might be) and someone is injured or killed:
1. The nationals of the sorority can be sued
2. The local chapter can be sued
3. Individual members of the chapter, particularly executive board members, can be sued
4. The families of sisters can be sued
5. Chapter advisors can be sued
THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE. If your Panhellenic hasn't done "Something of Value" or a Mock Trial recently, I highly recommend that you do. It is scary to think, but with a few small mistakes you can be ruined. My Panhellenic did a mock trial last year enacting this and it was very upsetting. So, what Chi O nationals wanted this girls to sign was actually pretty standard--it was probably just having them acknowledge something that's already true. Don't believe me, you can do the research. It's totally true.
That said, I don't know much about Chi-O at Wake specifically (I live like 30 minutes away from Wake at home and 4 of my best friends from HS go there), only that they had one of the best reputations on campus--known as being southern, classy, popular, etc. I have also visited the Pi Phi suite there and they seemed totally into Pi Phi, not Strings. So I'm not sure how that plays out for other chapters. I also know KDs on campus (doesn't seem to be an issue for them, either). I know that Wake was expanding with ADPi (Theta left my freshman year after only being on campus a few years--Wake had been involved in sort of a chapter cycling--new colonization followed by small numbers and eventual shutdown) this year or next year, so we'll see what happens. The Pi Phis I spoke to seemed very sarcastic about the chapter cycling, etc. They thought Panhellenic should be a little more cautious in its expansion tactics. All in all, the Wake situation seems very complicated to me.
FYI, Wake has:
Delta Delta Delta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi
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