Campus Policies

[shinerbock]

Sure, signatures will be occasionally abused, just like everything is. How about we punish those who use them in poor judgement, rather than enacting a blanket ban on the entire practice. But then, that would put responsibility in the hands of the students, and God knows we don't want that. I hope one day society will realize personal responsibility is a GOOD thing.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Sure, signatures will be occasionally abused, just like everything is. How about we punish those who use them in poor judgement, rather than enacting a blanket ban on the entire practice. But then, that would put responsibility in the hands of the students, and God knows we don't want that. I hope one day society will realize personal responsibility is a GOOD thing.

Yes, but while that would be an ideal, the reality is that everyone's covering their butts.

It's like the entire Greek system is grounded because of what our predecessors did. The administrators of the world are basically saying we had our chance and look what we did with it "insert hazing story here"

Most of the things on the list SHOULD BE no brainers. All of them have happened and some of them have killed people. Signatures are one example of something that's probably ok most of the time, but it gets lumped in all together.

While signatures might be a nice tradition, there's nothing preventing you from doing the same thing in different ways if that's what's required.

I agree that personal responsibility is key. But wearing your letters or not, you represent your fraternity and the entire Greek system. When one fraternity hazes, all get punished.

/Yet some boys, and some girls, still do it.

[shinerbock]

Well, the things done for purely liability reasons, physical endangerment, etc...I understand. Of course, I still think it is ridiculous, but the school must protect itself. What mostly distresses me, are the things done that involve no direct harm, or much liability to the school. For example, signatures. I'm sure there is partly the reason that a brother could make a pledge do _____ for it (which is where personal responsibility comes in, the pledge can just say NO), but more often they concern themselves with the self esteem side of the situation. Why are schools so concerned with making sure students feel so great about themselves. It shouldnt be their job to make sure that all students are self confident and have high self esteem. I simply hate it when schools try to make sure students are included in organizations, especially when they often don't belong.