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Originally posted by decadence
I agree with the fact that stupidity can attempt to rear its ugly head in any organisation. I think an important point though, is that many see local orgs as less monitored than national ones?
A national org on a campus is monitored by its own e-board of course, by the university through advisors, local alumni, and (inter)nationals. If it 'acts up' then it can have its charter pulled. That is generally a fatal blow to the group. In non-locals there is always lot of emphasis on important issues such as hazing (which is not to say locals don't emphasis anti-hazing, just that is not a "given"). IHQ can pull their charter and continually stress the importance of risk management because they don't want tragedies to occur.
With a local, a governing body isn't in the picture in the same way. The onus is on the individual local org to act responsibly. Many of them do, but in some cases some do not. Effectively, people often view locals as somehow a greater risk as they (locals) are seen as monitoring themselves?
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