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To be slightly oversimplistic -- although not much, really, there isn't anything groundbreaking in this report.
Everything in it has been talked about in this forum. This report is just better organized. We know all of this stuff.
The thing that jumped out at me, though, was the comment of our oft quoted in the newspaper friend Dean Richard McQuaig at Indiana which would seem to me to confirm what I said in one of my very early posts. To paraphrase, "The Greek letters on the front of your house make you a target." As he points out, it's easier to "blame" an identifible group than an entire population.
That being the case, it still seems obvious to me that we have to be even more careful since we're under the microscope all the time. We have to stop shooting ourselves in the foot with hazing and alcohol incidents. It also appears to me that we must be much more mindful of talking very loudly about all of the good things we do. We're not very adept at that. We wait for the media to come and discover what wonderful people we are. In the mean time, the "authority figures" from the university administration are busy telling them that we're all bums.
I'll just remount my soapbox for a moment to remind everyone that media outlets don't have enough staff to check with us. Calls to the local cops are a different thing. They're part of the daily routine. (Please don't tell me they shouldn't be -- let's remember what news is) When we do something good, we have to be just as vocal as our detractors are when we do something not so good.
Finally, it's not enough to point out that the problem isn't only ours. We have to do something about it, and then let people know just what that is.
Thanks for posting this, James. I have heard it quoted, but never had the opportunity to read it in its entirity.
Fraternally,
DeltAlum
Last edited by DeltAlum; 12-10-2001 at 02:47 AM.
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