I am interested in McCoyRed's comments. They make a lot of sense to me for several reasons.
First, all of our organizations have very good and probably a few bad chapters. One or two chapters do not make the organization, as a whole, less worthy.
Second, every comment is the posters opinion and very subjective. That doesn't make the evaluation correct.
Third, unfortunately, some folks just don't have anything good to say about anything.
Fourth, everyone (hopefully) wants and believes their organization to be the best, and it can be very tempting to try to "prove" that at the expense of other organizations. Unfortunately, I think we've seen some of these last two things in some of the threads.
Finally, while it is wrong to overlook real or dangerous problems with a chapter, it is not helpful to the Greek System to air that dirty laundry in a forum such as this one. Those problems should be addressed to the chapters National.
So, even if our groups don't consider these comments, in McCoy's words, "disrespectful," this kind of thread can certainly be counterproductive and sometimes hurtful. As McCoy said, (paraphrasing) we make a lifelong committment for our own specific reasons, and, again hopefully, support our fraternity/sorority for those qualities -- not whether any given chapter is good or bad.
So, to return to my orignial suggesion, if these threads are to be included in this forum, why not put them where only those interested parties will go to look for them?
Fraternally and respectfully,
DeltAlum
Aside to McCoyRed -- your signature says BaltCo. May I assume that means Baltimore County, MD. Just curious. We lived in Baltimore for a while about 25 years ago. Worked at WJZ-TV.
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