Gistapo Style Campus Corporation

[archangel689]

NICE. Just make sure that the replacement is someone who sides with the brothers on all issues... this is very important and will help the future of your group.

[ThetaxiUW]

Okay,

so its kind of amazing that many alumni are now coming back now that our advisor has stepped down. They have been saying that the reason that they would not come back was due to this advisor. Amazing what one advisor can do. This was all due to a very bad thing that happened where the advisor told them to do something then and then turned on them after they got caught. Resulting in 40 guys being evicted by our nationals. Not only did they dislike the advisor, but turns out that a lot in the 80's didn't want anything to do with the house if he was advisor. Good for us I guess.

Again, our campus corporation just runs our house not the whole campus greeks. He is not high up at all. We elect him once a year, which he will more than likely not be reelected this year.

A great thing has happened to us. And a lesson should be learned from this: If you as brothers (or sisters) do not like a situation you are in, you do have the power to change it, and if you don't... it will only make things worse.

[archangel689]

A tip, I think you should motion for the following at the next regular meeting so this bullshit never happens again.

Make your advisor an elected position.

Amend your chapter bylaws or consitution to make the advisor a position which is elected by the brothers and serves a set term just like any other elected position.

Why? Because it makes it easier to remove any future advisors that are a pain in the ass.

It's EASY to rally enough support from brothers to not reelect a person to a position...and it wont piss your national off as much.

On the other hand, throwing someone out of a position forcibly is A LOT harder to rally support for... and pisses your national off A LOT MORE....

In your case you got lucky and the guy resigned...now if he would've fought you tooth and nail the story could have turned out different. But, if you change your consitution to what I suggest, and a situation similar to this one happens again (and dont think that it couldn't) I assure you the advisor would simply not get reelected and the problem would take care of itself and not cripple the fraternity with a giant issue like throwing out an advisor.

Do you see the benifits to what I suggest?

About the campus corporation, It must be something other than what I believed it was... because the "Duquesne University Corporation" at my school is like so high up the students dont normally ever hear from them or know it even exists. It basically consists of priests and alumni who are extremely rich and have campus buildings named after their families. Our advisor is an ex-officio member of that board, and was the former president of it, so we have a lot of power we have yet to tap there...

[AlphaSigOU]

Just had to nitpick the thread title...

BTW, the proper spelling is 'Gestapo' and is actually an acronym for the German word Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police). Their unlimited police powers in silencing opponents of the Nazi regime in WW II gave rise to the modern word 'Gestapo tactics' in referring to heavy-handed enforcement of laws, rules and regulations. The Infernal Revenue Service (oops... Internal Revenue Service) has usually been likened to the 'Tax Gestapo', for its ruthless and sometimes unconstitutional enforcement of the tax laws.

Other WWII German abbreviations and words that entered modern English:

Flak - Abbreviation for Fliegerabwehrkanone (anti-aircraft cannon). This word was brought home by the B-17 and B-24 aircrews that flew missions over Germany, and 'catching flak' is now a common term for getting chewed out.

Stuka - Abbreviation for Sturzkampfflugzeug (dive bomber). The Junkers JU-87 airplane, while notorious in its role as a dive bomber in the early days of WW II, suffered heavy losses during the Battle of Britain. Later models of the Stuka served as effective tank busters.

Blitz - The word by itself means 'lightning' but was actually shortened from the word Blitzkrieg (lightning war); from the tactics used by the Germans to achieve quick surprise on the battlefield in the early years of WWII. Today, you'll hear the word 'blitz' to refer to football plays.

Strafe - Actually means 'punishment', but used nowadays to refer to low level machine-gun or rocket attack by airplanes.

[ThetaxiUW]

Our advisor is a elected position, however, alumni and current brothers each get one vote. This is done no our founders day. He would have been voted out but that would have not been for a couple months or so. This was alot quicker.

Our campus corp is just for our house. Every house on campus has a campu corp that acts as a landlord or something like it. thats why we think that it is unlawful for them to search our rooms without a notice to us.

[Kevin]

Originally posted by ThetaxiUW
Our advisor is a elected position, however, alumni and current brothers each get one vote. This is done no our founders day. He would have been voted out but that would have not been for a couple months or so. This was alot quicker.

Our campus corp is just for our house. Every house on campus has a campu corp that acts as a landlord or something like it. thats why we think that it is unlawful for them to search our rooms without a notice to us.

A lot of states run websites that post all the state statutes on them (Oklahoma does). There's probably some kind of state statute for renters or something. You might try something like your attorney general's website, state court or something like that. It makes researching laws and such VERY easy.