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Hmmmm....I can see why faculty objected to that line...most of the time they almost have to or risk looking like they condone skipping class (especially if the overall university admin. is strict). Or maybe they're just being entirely too uptight about the whole thing. I'm sure they have students that have skipped class before. Anyway.....
I think the poem really speaks to students....it's kinda like saying "Taus have standards to uphold, but they're not tightwads about it". I guess one way around the faculty objection (who knew they read those flyers anyway!!!) is to have portions of the poem printed onto flyers...different flyers with different parts of the poem...and then invite people to learn more about what a Tau is. Just leave out the lines faculty might throw a fit about, but during the recruitment event read or display the entire poem. Make the "cutting a two hour lab" line kinda an inside joke, so to speak. (One way I would do it is to read the line, then when you say "cutting a two hour lab", give a conspiratorial (sp?) look and go "shhhh...don't tell!" Maybe you just have to see it...)
Now that I go back and read that, it doesn't make as much sense as if I'm explaining it out loud. I hope you understand it!!!
About making info night more formal, what about wearing black pants with an embroidered top? Something a little nicer than a Tshirt...but not too expensive. Then either find a mom with one of those embroidery sewing machines (don't remember what they're called) or find someone to embroider either small letters or Alpha Sigma Tau spelled out, or an anchor, something like that. You can use those year after year as a "chapter shirt" for pictures or certain campus events where jeans/block letters are too casual.
PsychTau
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