Reducing barriers to GLO membership

[*winter*]

Horrible idea. I swear, every year we just get further and further away from the idea that college exists to provide an education.

[carnation]

Another thing: financial barriers.

The only way I see to make this fair is to cut costs across the board. We are a very large middle class family and most of our children went Greek. I have seen people "demand" that Greeks give out full fraternity and sorority scholarships so that anyone can join. Are you kidding? Do these people even comprehend the sacrifices that families like ours made so that our children could join Greek life and other activities?

I can see this going down this road: in the past 20 years or so, local elementary schools majorly jacked up the price of field trips so that people who could supposedly afford it were paying for kids who couldn't afford it to go. Here's how it ended up--with the jacked up prices, few kids signed up. There were also a lot of parents who claimed their kids should go free when we all knew they were living pretty good lives.

The end result was that few if any field trips were happening.

[Cheerio]

Regarding GLO membership requirements:

Removing GPA requirements is lowering a standard toward membership. Removing barriers should not involve lowering standards.

Carefully and slowly cutting some costs is removing barriers without necessarily lowering a standard.

Another thought on elimination of barriers: Might the complete elimination of housing, by greek groups least able to afford it, become a standard that strengthens or weakens interest in said groups?