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Originally posted by damasa
This certain brother has had a history of problems and violence in our fraternity. This is the latest issue in his outspoken hatred of our country (or so it seems). Earlier this year he had a confrontation with one of our African-American members and he proceeded to use racial slurs. He was suspended at that time. Now this happens. He has been in trouble before that, at one point threatening a girl in a sorority on campus which almost brought our fraternity into a legal battle (luckily all charges were dropped).
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Damasa,
He sounds like a serious trouble-maker and I do think he will
continue to cause grief for you guys later on down the line.
Past behavior is a pretty good indication of future behavior, and he sure has been consistent in the past....(and I don't mean that in a good way). He has serious anger managment problems and he is a big liability. Threatening a girl on campus and using racial slurs against a fellow member -- he sounds like a loose cannon to me. I think it is time to boot him...not because of the flag ruining, but because he is someone who has serious behavior problems that show no sign of letting up.
As for the "Be your brother's brother, not your brother's keeper" comment, there is a
limit and I think he crossed it a long time ago. He is an adult and therefore responsible for his actions. You're in college and your first priority is to get an education, not expend your energy and get stressed out trying to mop up behind this volatile, unbalanced guy and do damage control on behalf of your fraternity! I think to be "Your brother's brother"...your only obligation is for the fraternity to try to find out what is going on with his life, and to direct him to the help that he needs. If he doesn't want to help himself, well, you have done all that you can, and I think you can absolve yourself of any further responsibility.
Based on what I have read though, I feel that he has to go.
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