Another Reason to THINK Before You Send an E-mail

[sigmadiva]

Originally Posted by Kevin

So far, that hasn't been my experience.

You are very fortunate.

It's not so much "fear of God," and if I said that, that's a poor choice of words.

No, I said that because that is what I tried.

The simple if you do X, then you will be punished, isn't always a successful way to motivate kids to behave. They tend to act more to further their own interests. If they are proud of their letters and proud of what their organization stands for, then hopefully, they won't do anything to sully your organization's honor.

I agree. But, I've also run into the attitude of 'I'm 18 now, you (older adult) can't tell me what to do!!!!!'

Collegians do need to understand that if certain things, like underage drinking, are brought to their HQs attention, those HQs are bound due to liability reasons to act harshly. I sometimes question whether that's enough on the part of any given HQ due to the immediate response everyone, including greeks has to these sorts of press releases, i.e., "What.. college kids drink? [shock!]"

I never had to deal with drinking. The chapter just wanted to do silly stuff that they though would be good sisterhood bonding activities, but I had to tell them that the activity was now considered hazing. They wanted to try to do it anyway.