Hmmmm......
Stephen being a member of Sigma Alpha Mu at the time that he viciously slapped a girl on national television is indeed relevant TO ME, because well, that's the first time I think any Greek has does such a thing on MTV or any such program. I find that interesting -- sue me.
And no certainly it's not a reflection on Sigma Alpha Mu that they selected this gentleman to become a member in the first place -- nobody has a crystal ball that can determine whether their members will end up committing violent acts against women.
And so far, we don't have any concrete evidence that he was expelled...all that we know is that Stephen from the Real World: Seattle, an at least then-member of Sigma Alpha Mu (a pretty prominent fraternity from what I understand) struck a woman on tv and destroyed her property, and went on to other less than savory acts in his life, including, but not limited to prostitution and theft.
In any case, I think this can serve as a frozen moment in time for Sigma Alpha Mu, or any of our organizations, that we need to be so confident, so sure in our selection of new members, that we will have less occurences of our members embarassing our organizations.
And for the record, I don't think Stephen is a bad person, I think he made bad choices.
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Originally posted by TPARose
I really don't think that Stephans fraternal relationship is really relevant in the slap scenerio. It is fruitless to linger on the fact that he WAS a sammy. I am sure that "brothers" from other fraternities have made similiar mistakes in moments past, which haven't nessicarily exemplified the morals that their founders had tried to embody in their fraternities. It is sad when this happens, such as in Stephan's case, but in no way is this indicative of a failure or weakness in that particular fraternity. People are people, and sometimes despite the best upbringing of relations, people do just make huge mistakes and come out bad.
In the Slap case, I think it is a shame that Any Man (or woman, for that matter) would lose their temper and harm a sick girl (despite how annoying she may be), regardless of fraternal orientation.
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