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Originally posted by mcellpe
Rome is burning! We must, as a greek community, work hard to eliminate some of the reckless behaviors that occur in our houses and truly change. Yes, we are held to a higher standard; one we set for ourselves. Society is holding us to this standard, and will simply eliminate us if we do not deliver.
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I was thinking about a comment this afternoon, but this pretty well says it.
We can yell and scream about how unfair liquor laws are, and we can say (as I understand some posts above) that everything we've said about higher standards and our founders principles are apparantely a lot of BS. And I guess we shouldn't look for special people to pledge because we only want to compare ourselves to what "everybody" does.
Hey, what the hell, it's not really a problem, it's all the nasty old media's fault for reporting what, no matter what we think, are legimate news stories. They pick on us just because
we've developed the reputation of being the hard partiers on campus.
Or, we can bury our heads in the sand and blame Political Correctness. But this problem existed before "PC" was invented.
This is nothing new -- but the realities of Risk Management, liability and lawsuits have forced it into the open.
Unfortunately, when you are an advisor or division/national officer, or even an administrator at a college, all of those things really don't excuse the fact that our members are breaking the law and some are even dying.
Here's your fiddle, Mr. Nero. Play on.