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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Sorry, I meant to get back to this earlier.
I cannont speak for the alumni of other GLOs at Colorado, but I know a lot of Beta Kappa Chapter Delt alums who are absolutely fed up with the C.U. Greek System and would probably fight recolonizing in Boulder -- and many of them are very influential in the Denver area, the Fraternity and in the university's alumni base.
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Based on what DTD did that final time to the house, I don't blame you or the alumni for that mindset.
The trashing of the DTD house was so extensive, it made local and national TV news - it was unreal. I have seen something similar with the old ATO house (now Sigma Chi) at CSU, but the DTD house was literally just finished with those renovations....which by the way were the ENVY of the CU greek system at the time, and the damage was phenomenal - I don't think a single piece of glass, door, or piece of plaster or drywall didn't need replaced.
Of course, the newscasters just couldn't help but mention that John Elway was a Delt - and then he had to face stupid questions (first, he was a Stanford, not CU, etc....) that showed me nothing more than the FACT that stereotypes often drive "factual" news stories.
It was in the newspaper as well - an absolutely vitriolic OP/ED piece against greeks appeared in the following days - again proving to me that many press members run on stereotypes, and do very little fact-checking before publishing anything.
I also think DA is right about the old mindset of giving the greeks just enough rope to hang themselves is dead on. What the campus administration apparently failed to realize, though, was, once the slack ran out, the rope was also around their own necks - so they decided to act. They are acting to show they are doing "something" but, I think it is analagous to a band-aid on a sucking chest wound. Not enough, and it will get worse. I wish it weren't the case, but that is the CU campus in a nutshell.