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I think we need to wait to hear all the facts before making any judgments on the chapter... as it stands now we have no idea why the chapter was suspended. We don't know if any brothers we involved with selling drugs, my guess would be there weren't b/c the house wasn't raided by the cops. Maybe a couple brothers we caught buying from the other house, if so the entire chapter shouldn't be punished for the acts of a few. the brotherly thing to do would be to help them over come their drug problem. Looking at the layout of "fraternity row" it looks to me like the 5 other fraternities suspended are all situated either on corners or high foot traffic areas so my guess is that drugs were being sold outside of the house and they were suspended for not reporting it.
But I think this can all be summed up in the immortal words of Eric Stratton (Rush Chair, Damn glad to meet you):
Otter: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Hoover: Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter: Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What's the difference?
[Addressing the room]
Otter: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.
[winks at Dean Wormer]
Otter: But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
[Leads the Deltas out of the hearing, all humming the Star-Spangled Banner]
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In ZAX,
Billy DeMarco
University of Maryland, Baltimore County '02
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