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Originally Posted by skylark
My thoughts exactly... a warning = SA's ego deflated. It sounds like SA thought she was the sh*t with her GLO because she "saved" a chapter and everyone should be so grateful for her self-sacrificing GLO spirit
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I agree 100%. Unless the scolding took place on the front lawn with the whole chapter watching, there was no need for the initial admonition to blow up into what it did and become a public matter.
Either SA has an inflated ego, as you suggest, or perhaps this was used as an excuse for an exit strategy. The older I get, the more people I run into who create an excuse to drop a committment rather than just quit. Very cowardly behavior.
As for the alcohol issue in general, I seem to have a view in the minority.
I am an advisor for my chapter and also an officer on the Housing Corporation. My GLO does not have a fraternity-wide dry house policy, nor is my chapter's house dry.
And yet, I do not drink at the fraternity house. I did have a beer once back when I first took on the advisor role, but since that time I have had nothing. Yes, I will drink and have a blast at off-site alumni events, but never at the house.
This is the price an advisor or alumnus in a key guidance role has to pay in my view. We are not due nor have we earned special rights- if anything we have to live by even stricter standards when on chapter property.
My fraternity has been at my alma mater for over 120 years and never shut down- we have the longest continuous existence of any fraternity here. Thus, we have an incredibly good Risk Management environment and the odds of something going wrong are very tiny.
But there is always that "what if" out there- and what if something happens when I am at the house and I am drinking and/or drunk?
Advisors and alumni who are actively involved in chapter support are there to provide guidance. But our most critical task is to "be there" on those extremely rare occasions when the unthinkable happens.
And you can't "be there" if you are drinking on site. It is not about following state laws or acting within IHQ guidelines- it is about being completely above reproach when at the house.
This is the small cost that goes along with the great personal reward of being of service to your chapter as an alumnus.
All offered IMHO.
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