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Old 11-10-2006, 02:12 PM
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My question is what is societies fascination with believing that the Greek system breeds bigots and idiots when I've seen great people develop.

Any thoughts? Where's the positive PR to highlight all the great things Greeks do? (philanthropy and such)
In some cases, past practices.

There are some threads about fostering positive images, but the real reason in my mind is that our chapters don't try to communicate favorable things until it's too late.

How many of your chapters are in normal contact with people from local media? If you see something good about ANY organization, it's because someone has contacted that newspaper, TV or radio station.
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Old 11-10-2006, 02:25 PM
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Why on earth would someone want to dress up as a slave?

It takes one stupid action to completely undermine all the good an entire greek system does.
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Old 11-11-2006, 02:17 PM
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Is it okay for a black student to dress up as an escaped slave?
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Old 11-11-2006, 05:08 PM
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Is it okay for a black student to dress up as an escaped slave?
Why would anyone, black or white, dress as a slave for Halloween? Just to get a reaction, or what?
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Old 11-11-2006, 07:53 PM
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Why would anyone, black or white, dress as a slave for Halloween? Just to get a reaction, or what?
Because slavery is scary??? Yeah, I don't get it either.
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Old 11-11-2006, 08:52 PM
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Why would a student at University of Kansas dress up in a Nazi uniform on his first day of his freshman year? (Well, in this case he didn't want to be in college and ended up getting in a fight and getting arrested and expelled, but I digress...)
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Update on the PiKap who dressed up as a slave for Halloween at GMU--their chapter was suspended for one year. Not because of the action, but because the action took place at a party which gathered media attention while the chapter was on social probation.
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Old 01-07-2007, 02:08 PM
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Is it okay for a black student to dress up as an escaped slave?
Find me a black student who would do this unless they were acting, or taking part in a historical recreation, and I'll personally give you $100 (US, not Canadian).
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