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What prompted this were several incidents in the past few years which resulted in death or serious injury that were hazing or alcohol related.
This is something that had been in the works since 1998 when first proposed by the faculty. In 2001, the VP Student Affairs charged IFC and PC to develop a plan for taking charge of their organizations and stopping the incidents from occurring. At that time, IFC and PC hired a consultant who developed a document entitled Strategic Plan 2010. This document suggested developing a task force to investigate whether deferred recruitment would help with the problems the Greeks were having.
The faculty took that and ran with it. They developed a plan which included the things that TwinkieAngel outlined, as a method of eliminating hazing and alcohol related injuries. The VP Student Affairs is an alum of a GLO herself and is trying to mediate between the two groups. The faculty initially wanted to defer recruitment a whole year and she talked them into one semester. The proposal affects PC, IFC, Multicultural Greek Council and NPHC.
Over the past two months, numerous alumnae have met with the VP Student Affairs and the Dean of Students, including a phone contact with the President of AXO. She is in charge of the alumnae organized protest to this proposal because AXO holds the Panhellenic President currently. Local alumnae have written letters and met with these officials and the general consensus is that this is already a done deal. I do think it's important that they hear from the students, but I wouldn't be too optimistic about the petition changing their minds. The VP Student Affairs has explained the extreme financial implications to these chapters to the faculty team that developed the plan and they did not seem to care.
The way the drafted proposal was written, I do not think it can effect the satellites of U of Mich because it says that they must live on campus for one semester, not complete one semester of academic work. The satellites are primarily commuter schools anyway. The alcohol free housing and required resident supervisors might apply to the satellites if GLOs have houses, but the document seemed geared toward Ann Arbor. I have a copy of the draft but it is set in landscape and it shows up sideways in Word so I can't cut and paste (and yes, I tried switching the view).
Dee
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