Cardinal Rule Broken by Our Greek Advisor ;-(

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I would handle the situation by placing an anonymous call to the NPHC sorority's headquarters.

This might not be a bad idea. I might consider running it by your school's general counsel (or better, a private attorney licensed to practice in your state) first to make sure you're not violating any confidentiality agreements you may have signed in the course of the interview process or might be breaking any laws by making such a disclosure.

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I would handle the situation by placing an anonymous call to the NPHC sorority's headquarters.

Originally Posted by Kevin

This might not be a bad idea. I might consider running it by your school's general counsel (or better, a private attorney licensed to practice in your state) first to make sure you're not violating any confidentiality agreements you may have signed in the course of the interview process or might be breaking any laws by making such a disclosure.

Co-sign. Good way to handle it without being in the middle of the fracas...

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Kevin

This might not be a bad idea. I might consider running it by your school's general counsel (or better, a private attorney licensed to practice in your state) first to make sure you're not violating any confidentiality agreements you may have signed in the course of the interview process or might be breaking any laws by making such a disclosure.

I would not run it by anyone first. There is no confidentiality agreement in this person boasting about both NPC and NPHC membership. The info could have come from anywhere as far as the GLO NHQ's concerned.

[KDCat]

I would think seriously about making an anonymous phone call before you do it.

She is much loved by your community. If you get fingered as the person who made the call, there is going to be a lot of backlash towards you. It's going to cause a lot of drama. If she is not a member of your GLO, either NPC or NPHC, she hasn't broken any agreements to any group that you have a responsibility for. Is it really worth it to protect someone else's GLO?

I would expect that since you have questioned her on this issue, you will be the one fingered as having made the call to her organizations.

I was a whistle blower in college. The backlash, hard feelings, and hangover from that have made me very cautious about ever doing it again. It would have to be something that effects me and mine very directly or something extremely damaging (ie. Enron or Sandusky) before I would be a whistle blower again.

This wouldn't be worth it to me, if it wasn't my GLO. There's a lot of stuff that people do that is wrong. Choose very carefully which issues are worth making a stand on.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I would not run it by anyone first. There is no confidentiality agreement in this person boasting about both NPC and NPHC membership. The info could have come from anywhere as far as the GLO NHQ's concerned.

Slow down there. Remember, the OP's duty is not to the NPHC organization or the NPC organization unless it's hers or unless there's some greenbook something which requires mandatory reporting. Her first duty is to the university's students. A disclosure like this could definitely do more harm than good to the university's students by placing the Greek system in chaos.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Slow down there. Remember, the OP's duty is not to the NPHC organization or the NPC organization unless it's hers or unless there's some greenbook something which requires mandatory reporting. Her first duty is to the university's students. A disclosure like this could definitely do more harm than good to the university's students by placing the Greek system in chaos.

LOL. There is a reason why the OP brought this to GC rather than talking to the people in the Greek system at the school. I doubt the people in the Greek system will tell the OP to call the GLO NHQ. Then the OP will have no choice but to get over it all.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

LOL. There is a reason why the OP brought this to GC rather than talking to the people in the Greek system at the school. I doubt the people in the Greek system will tell the OP to call the GLO NHQ. Then the OP will have no choice but to get over it all.

I can't blame you for advocating for what is very possibly our own organization. That said, I'm just providing information and recommendations just the same as you are.

If you don't even think the people in the Greek system at OP's school would advocate for her turning this into the national organizations, then whose best interests are you advocating for here? OP is the president of her student body, not the dual membership police.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Kevin

If you don't even think the people in the Greek system at OP's school would advocate for her turning this into the national organizations, then whose best interests are you advocating for here? OP is the president of her student body, not the dual membership police.

As I said, if this gets around (and apparently this woman has diarrhea of the mouth to the point that it will) it will damage the chapters as people will be thinking it's OK to quit one, join another, the same way as you get a new apartment in the fall. That is exactly the sort of thing a student body president should be concerned about as it can do great harm to the Greek system.

I also really wonder how many people who are saying to let it go would be saying the same thing if she had joined 2 different NPCs.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As I said, if this gets around (and apparently this woman has diarrhea of the mouth to the point that it will) it will damage the chapters as people will be thinking it's OK to quit one, join another, the same way as you get a new apartment in the fall. That is exactly the sort of thing a student body president should be concerned about as it can do great harm to the Greek system.

I also really wonder how many people who are saying to let it go would be saying the same thing if she had joined 2 different NPCs.

The way things were described, this will get around on its own and someone will probably turn it in. If this woman was as open about her dual affiliation during the interview process as was described, she'll be open about it later.

You're suggesting that if this dual membership issue is made public as if that will lead to some sort of chaos on its own. I doubt that the individual groups on this campus would actually accept such a situation.

As to whether this would be the same if it was between two different NPCs, I think we'd have a brightline rule that it's a no-no. Going back to that '02 thread, no one, including you, seemed to have a clue as to any specific prohibition. While one NPHC group might have that specific prohibition, it's entirely possible that neither the NPC nor the affected NPHC have such a thing, but might instead have some sort of rule like the one I posted from Sigma Nu which could really be argued both ways.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I can't blame you for advocating for what is very possibly our own organization.

That is not what I am doing and I do not assume that this has to do with my sorority.

Yes, we are all providing recommendations. I am responding to your response to me. I recommend calling the NPHC GLO NHQ. The OP will figure out what to do.