[ThetaxiUW]

The uprising about the surprise room seaches (the main problem) was egged on by our alumni when they did one when everyone was home for spring break. There were three people in the house at the time and things that would beak our "contract" were found. However, there was no contract this year because the contracts were not handed out to people to sign. So we really had no contract. However, we then raised the problem with the searches. The alumni have thus asked us for rights to do surprise room searches and have keys to all devices inside the rooms (safes, lockboxes, etc...). We do have a strict no alcohol or tobacco policy which everyone abides by. Alcohol and toboacco was found. No illicit drugs by any means. Not to mention the alcohol was found only in people rooms that were 21 years of age. They also said that empty beer bottles were also illegal by the "contract".

To me after reading this for myself, it sounds like our alumni corporation is doing a horrible job. They have no trust form the undergraduates as well as no control and respect. But that is just my opinion.

The real problem is that the alumni never really supported our house in the first place and have been controlling us through negative reinforcment as opposed to respect. They are constantly reprimanding the actives and imposing rules upon them.

We tried to change the board to other alumni's at our founders day meeting but we were shot down due