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Originally posted by kdGreen
I mean, if a young man in high school (a minor) can wear a shirt that has a pic of Bush, bearing the words, "International Terrorist", then I don't see how Panhellenic can restrict what Greek orgs select as slogans.
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This is the simple difference between PUBLIC and Private institutions.
When you CHOOSE to affiliate yourseld with a private organization, such as panhellenic sororities or fraternities, you are agreeing to uphold standards and meet requirements of that private organization. And if panhellenic wants to create standards and restrictions for its members to meet, they are perfectly within their rights to do this, since you can always drop out of the organization if you don't agree with the restrictions in order to "preserve" your right to free speech.
They can say "those who belong to our organization will not use the following terms or slogans" and you can either choose to comply and belong...or you can choose to exercise your freedom of speech and go against the policy, which could result in negative consequences for your organization.
As an American citizen, you always have the right to freedom of speech, but you do NOT always have control over the consequences of exercising that right...like the consequence of being kicked out or suspended from a private organization.
This actually reminds me of when girls in our chapter get called to standards board and say, "I don't think the sorority should judge what I do! I'm free to do whatever I want." I mean, YES, you can do what you want...but you can't do what you want AND be a member of sorority at the same time (if you are doing something that damages our good name) without some kind of consequence.
They can (and in my opinion, SHOULD) have and enforce these standards.