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Originally posted by DolphinChicaDDD
As pointed out earlier, some org's chapters have not seen a field consultant in years. It happend with the last group that went off campus; no one was around to answer their questions, the resources weren't avaiable, and the organization fell apart. Granted, yes it has to do with the girls, but it also had to do with this group of girls was not given the guidence they needed. This is the reason my school's administration was against trying another smaller org.
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I get what you're saying. I think it's optimistic to say that money does not make a difference when it comes to catching and enforcing risk management policies. That isn't to say that money is the only thing, or that many of the smaller organizations don't have anti-hazing policies and exemplary records of enforcing them. But the availability of field/chapter/travelling consultants is a big issue.
There is one of the smaller NPCs that I always see connected with hazing rumors -- especially in conjunction with their chapters at "bigger name schools." Many of their chapters at bigger schools have either numbers problems or rumors of major risk management issues. I know for a fact that some of these chapters have not seen a consultant in years. And the impression that I get is that is that this sorority feels pressured not to shut down chapters with major numbers or risk management issues at least in part because they want to compete with the bigger sororities and don't think that they'll be able to if they shut their chapter at _____ [insert name of major school here]. I'm not so worried about numbers -- if an HQ wants to keep their chapter open when they have 30 members and the rest of the sororities are at 120 that's their business -- but the avoiding confrontation of risk management issues for prestige's sake, if that's really what's going on, is definitely worrisome.
Of course maybe they are just rumors most of the time, and nothing more. And I definitely don't think that "that NPC is small" is a valid reason for keeping them off campus if the issue is hazing, because certainly the majority of smaller NPC chapters don't have problems with it. But from personal experience I have seen that the only sororities on my campus that have gone unpunished for hazing issues in the past, and because of it, continue to haze are the smaller NPC sororities. So it IS an issue at some schools. I would be surprised if mine was the only one.
Also, I don't remember who brought this up -- but the fact that the last two major sorority hazing cases were larger NPCs doesn't necessarily correlate to who is hazing more. It may just mean that they're getting caught more often.