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Originally posted by hoosier
We go to college to learn.
Sometimes a failure is a great way to learn.
I often say that the No. 1 benefit of GLO membersip is "the opportunity to fail" and hopefully learn from it.
When the entire pledge class quit, surely SAE and the leaders learned that their pledge program failed - and I suspect they would change.
The campus' expulsion ends the learning for SAE and the members. Hopefully other GLOs will learn from this.
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hoosier - I agree with you.
=however= not every chapter chooses to see something like this (the pledges quitting) as something to learn from. I've found that most members of GC are the ones with positive outlooks on things, but believe it or not, some of our brothers and sisters out there don't feel the same way about it.
Let me explain: Sometimes when this happens (pledges quitting) some members of the chapter might feel that maybe the pledge program isn't working.. and maybe they could do something to improve it. There will almost always be others who think they are "weeding out" the ones that "can't take it". They have that "well I did this when I was a pledge and I'm fine! They should be able to do it too" attitude. And it doesn't even have to apply to anything super dangerous like drinking gallons of beer or water.
I don't know if you ever saw that show "Fraternity Life" - but in that show the active fraternity members made their pledges do like mandatory push-ups or something. Not necessarily harmless, but why should someone be "made" to do them? Anyway, these guys felt like since that was the way it was done to them (and that was how it's been.. forever), that was what they were going to do to their pledges.... some quit.. some stuck around. I know it's REALLY bad to use this show as an example, because I know not all chapters are like that, but some really are... not all of them make situations positive like GCers.
I'm not saying these SAEs were thinking that way, because I obviously don't know them, but unfortunately there are chapters like that out there.
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