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Originally Posted by IrishLake
If it's firsthand experience though, and not hearsay... then it's not so taboo, IMO. Considering these stories have dominated the local talk radio shows and have been in the top 3 news stories on the local Big 4 news affiliates, plus the newspapers... other MU students saying "I'm not surprised" is the least of worries.
As for the PiPhi's and Alpha Xi's... I read that the PiPhi's have to apply to be released from suspension next year. IMO, Alpha Xi has every right to appeal.
I think MUGreek had a great post, and he's spot on with the logic behind why the Alpha Xi's are being punished more harshly. A lightbulb clicked when he mentioned what he did. Like I said before, I didn't even realize the Freedom Center HELD events like this or even had rental space, and I worked in a building directly across from it for 2 years. It makes sense... a predominately white sorority formal being held at a museum that celebrates black history, with an end result like this? With the Civil Rights baseball game being held in a matter of a few days? The Center IS hurting for money. Cincinnati is an extremely racially divided city as it is, this is just salt in that wound. However, if the Alpha Xi punishment is going to be that harsh for that reason though, then I think the standard has to be the same for all MU greek orgs.
I feel horrible for the girls in both sisterhoods who didn't do anything to deserve this. How the actions of a few (at least half of them dates) can ruin things for so many others is unfathomable to me.
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Desecrating a Civil Rights museum should be judged more harshly than a lodge. This is a fact of life. It's like speeding in a school zone versus on a regular street. We, as a society, have places that we just hold more sacred than others. If Miami University didn't hold Alpha Xi responsible in a harsh manner for their behavior, then they would be setting a bad example for what is acceptable behavior when visiting a place that many hold sacred. While I am sorry that this may ruin the experience of the Alpha Xi members who behaved themselves, the chapter should have been aware that their behavior at that venue needed to be above reproach. Hell, the DJ was appalled! This would be the equivalent of trashing the Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Vietnam Memorial or any countless places that memorialize our culture, history, etc. You just don't do that. I agree with the Freedom Center, it would be a good thing for these women to tour the center when they return to the school in the fall so they realize what they were desecrating. The least they could do is learn from the experience. In the end, none of this fiasco is about sorority life, it's about alcohol abuse, poor decision making and a lack of respect for others which is pervasive in more schools than just MU.
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