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Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
A housemother is an adult, not a student, and is employed by your organization. To me, it's totally different.
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So are you saying that an upper classperson or grad student isn't an adult?
Actually, I understand you point and agree with it.
However, I think that this is an underlying and not often discussed mindset that is a susbstantial piece of the puzzle of not only Risk Management, but of Greek Life/University relations on the whole.
When I was in college, I was in transition. I wanted to be treated as an adult, but still party every night until dawn. To make matters worse, I thought I had a whole lot more experience in life than I actually did.
I only wanted to take responsibility when it worked in my favor.
As I've advised chapters and taught courses at the college level, it is remarkable how much "older" seniors are than freshmen. Obviously, I mean mentally as oppossed to chronologically. There is a lot of maturing going on over those four or five years.
It sounds like, to some extent, these folks are little more than RA's -- and my experience, and that of my two children who went to or are attending college -- is that an RA is a fellow student who probably wants to fit in and isn't likely to cause any grief unless it really is absolutely necessary. It's a form of peer pressure. The one semester I lived in a dorm, I saw the RA at the beginning of the year -- and literally never again.
In the end, it comes down to this. If the chapter is being a good citizen, having one of the folks in the house shouldn't be a problem. If the chapter isn't and has something to hide, that's different.
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