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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
By the way... the word "scofflaw" always makes me think of that one Seinfeld episode where Newman avoids the cop and getting/paying parking tickets...D
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It's a great word, isn't it?
Please understand, I'm not trying to attack or criticise you or AST. You just provided a handy example of what I'd wager can be found in most any organization -- Greek or otherwise. I know I've seen it in organizations I belong to: The words of a rule a rule or policy say one thing, but the practical day-to-day interpretation and application of it differs in some way. What (we hope) keeps it from being a problem is that people are generally more aware of the interpretation/traditional application of the rule than they are of the actual words themselves, or at worst, there is a general understanding that "yes, we know the rule says this way, but what it really means is that way." I guess it's a professional hazard for me that when I've seen instances of this, my reaction is to suggest that we change the wording of the rule so that the wording is consistent with the actual application. Otherwise, I think what we're really doing is operating with two rules: a
de jure rule that we ignore and a
de facto rule that we follow.
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