Iota President @ SIUE held under $1 million bond.

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

If he was a Que, would I have posted it?--yeah. Where to post it? That's a call I made. It's not really an "Iota" story per se. That aspect is just a journalistic angle, I suppose. Maybe it should have gone in the general news section. Moreover, though, by posting something about someone in an organization is not necessarily casting aspersions on an organization. For every story about some Greek doing something good or ill, it can replicated in every group. One thing I was interested in doing was starting some dialogue about why the story was framed as it was. I originally saw this story on a Greek News website. This was the major reason why I put it here, esp. after I saw the threads about the TV show on the ABC Family Channel. That's more frivolous; this is more important as a way of possibly delving into issues about perceptions about Greek Life in the broader world.

Then why didn't you preface your post as such?

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

Then why didn't you preface your post as such?

I don't have to. This is a forum for all to speak to issues as they see fit. I prefer to just put the stories out there. I do this in this forum and others. I assume that the people here have critical thinking skills that they can employ. They may have other things to say according to their concerns and perspectives. That's what makes this forum interesting (and messy at times!).

Moreover, with the Internet there is a real democratization of information. No one has control over what's out here--no organization, person, pressure group, etc.As in scholarly circles, there is a real sense that there is a peer review process for whatever gets our there. If it's in the public domain, then it's futile to act as if one implicitly has special right to anything, even if it's about your organization. That's the blessing and bane of this medium.