[AlphaPhiBubbles]

thanks to whoever moved all the related threads into this one. sorry I'm one of the idiots that didn't do a search first.

I know that a lot of people have A LOT of speculation about what Chico State is like and what goes on here, especially from the poor news streaming out. First of all let me clear it up that the drinking culture is pretty strong here as many of you know. So while it seems pretty extreme that "all" these people keep going to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, in fact many non-greeks (and greeks that don't make the news) make trips to the hospital as well which is very sad and dangerous...but also just comes along with the proportion of people that drink in excess. If you drink enough and for long enough, you might go to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.

But anyway I kind of feel like GCers are putting my school under attack...when you all know first hand that greek stories in the news only reflect the bad and never the good. The greek community here does some seriously positive things for the chico community too. And I feel good things are surfacing from the recent horrible traumas surrounding hazing - the chapter of Sigma Pi formed from old Pi Kapp members when they lost their charter because of Adrian's death, is probably the best fraternity on our campus...Two Sigma Pi's have already been IFC presidents, along with many other offices, and many of the members either run or hold student government positions. The meeting that we recently had with the president was a big eye opener for greeks, and I'm betting that a lot of hazing practices will be slim to none for a long while after this.

Some of you are right, it was the entire greek systems responsibility to ensure hazing wasn't an issue. And we did. We told Chi Tau to shape up or ship out, they kept screwing up so we booted them out of recognition and they stayed. So we tried to kick them out of their house...but Delta Sig alumni own the house and wouldn't have it. We tried to get the city to make them take their letters off...the city didn't care enough. IFC members wanted to make it so any panhellenic sorority that socialed with Chi Tau would not be allowed to social with any other IFC fraternity as incentive for the fraternity to disband- but our greek advisor wouldn't allow it.

There was only so much we could do and we did it. Where we needed the rest of the help was from the university and the city. We needed them to make sure freshman students were aware of the dangers of their parties and their house and we needed the city to cooperate and we needed our own greek advisor to listen to us. We wanted to put real pressure on these guys but we couldn't do it alone. and now it's too late.

I need to shut up but I am really proud of my organization and many of the other respectable greek organizations I connect with. I also really love where I go to school and hate to feel like as a greek Chico State student I am being looked down upon.

FYI: President Paul Zingg was a Sig Ep (forget which school).