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Originally posted by LXAAlum
You're right, Rudey, not everyone is doing it. But, even though it is a small minority, greeks as a whole are paying a price in reputation, membership declines, and increased risk management insurance policy premiums.
It's quite obvious the status quo - workshops, closing problem chapters, and lawsuits, isn't fixing the problem, so something new needs to be done.
What would you propose we do differently to get rid of this cancer before it consumes an entire system?
My firm belief is that if greeks don't come up with something themselves, quick, then in five years or so max, we WILL see the loss of an entire national organization as the result of a lawsuit.
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Our Michigan chapter was not only was taken apart and recolonized after a severe hazing incident, but there were changes to how we recruited on the campus and whom we recruited. I even heard rumors about how rushes from certain hometowns were looked at entirely in a different light to make sure we didn't take on the added risk.
Can AEPi's Michigan chapter boast? In 2003 (their webpage has that listed), they had the highest GPA on campus (3.4) and the highest new member GPA (3.688). Their chapter, since being refounded in the last few years, has also had athletes and football players as brothers.
A fraternity is very capable of monitoring its own chapters and forming its own solutions to the problem (solutions that fit). What it needs to do is really consider whether it wants to take on the risk of expanding at certain schools. If an entire campus drinks constantly, there is little reason to believe your chapter at that school will attract the "non-alcoholics". And if you do set up shop at a high risk school, then you have to really, really make sure that your brothers there are on track and educated on hazing and the collective shame we all bear when you take part in it.
But I'm sorry - I will never, ever accept another fraternity's solution to our problems. And unless sororities really come up with brilliant non-conventional thoughts to fraternity problems, I will laugh and scoff at their recommendations to be pan-hellenic and just outright punish everyone.
-Rudey