Five Towson Sororities on Probation (Alcohol)

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

The reason they think the probation is harsh (social probation until Spring Break 08 and University probation until fall 2008) is that the error in judgement was committed by recruitment couselors who were not in contact with the sororities who had counseled their members that there would be no drinking allowed on bid day. The Panhellenic advisor apparently failed to enforce this policy. The women of the chapter did not drink on bid day but cannot have any socials and are on social probation for nearly the entire school year after doing nothing wrong. Social probation for the women caught drinking would be appropriate. Social probation for chapters who followed the rules except for their members out of their reach is inappropriate. Also, three chapters had drinking recruitment counselor sisters but no harsh probation...not sure how that is fair either.

Obviously some of these chapters are guilty of a little more than having recruitment counselors drink.

NPC rush IS DRY. That means no drinking, to make sure it's clear. Every member of an NPC sorority has the responsibility to know and follow recruitment rules. If no copies were given to the chapter, their Recruitment officer should have marched to the Panhellenic adviser's office and gotten a copy to distribute to members. There's no excuses on that one.

While some responsibility definitely does rest on the adviser's shoulders, it ultimately falls on the shoulders of the girls who actually did this. We're in college, we're old enough to use common sense. Tradition or not, it's not NPC-legal. And of ALL people, the recruitment counselors should know EVERY recruitment rule way before it ever starts.

I do have to say it's pretty ridiculous that these girls weren't sent home. If we (recruitment team) ever show up to an official event (including the men's fraternity parties, as according to IFC, they are also dry parties) having had a drop, we're kicked off of the team, no questions asked.

I realize it's really hard to control or police every member of a chapter when they're out on their own time, but it is the chapter's responsibility to police them at official events, when there are tons of sisters to watch out for each other. There's just really no excuse for any of this. If it's an official rush event, including an official Bid Day activity (from running to whatever official event the chapter holds), it has to be dry.

And I have to say I am not very sympathetic at all to this whining about the punishment. I know every campus has different attitudes towards alcohol, but on mine if our chapters were pulling this...stuff...our punishments would be a lot more harsh.