University Of Alabama Finally Votes To Integrate Greek System

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by SOM

University Of Alabama Finally Votes To Integrate Greek System-Less than a month ago, the student government blocked a similar measure to support integrating fraternities and sororities.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/un...otes-integrate

That seems like a pretty useless action. All for show. No student government vote will have an impact on Greek membership.

[ebdelt]

Originally Posted by thetalady

That seems like a pretty useless action. All for show. No student government vote will have an impact on Greek membership.

I would be curious to read the actual bills, the one that passed and the one that failed. I would imagine they have no practical purpose, and the first was more intended to generate a PR crisis than to fix the problem with actual, deliverable solutions.

All that being said, the Alabama Greek community is the most backward in the country and needs to get with the 21st century.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by ebdelt

I would be curious to read the actual bills, the one that passed and the one that failed. I would imagine they have no practical purpose, and the first was more intended to generate a PR crisis than to fix the problem with actual, deliverable solutions.

All that being said, the Alabama Greek community is the most backward in the country and needs to get with the 21st century.

From the link. (Bolding is mine)

Katie Smith, the student senator who drafted the earlier resolution, felt it was because of pressure from the Machine that her bill to integrate Greeks failed in March.

The new bill's language was left unadjusted and passed Thursday "with an overwhelming number of votes on the floor," the Crimson White reported.

It doesn't require any immediate action by the university or Greek houses, rather, it simply voices support for the goal of integration.

[ebdelt]

Originally Posted by TSteven

From the link. (Bolding is mine)

Thanks.

Typical student government at work. Needing to feel important, but not really doing anything specific to drive change.

Still...why was it so hard to pass the bill the first time? I'm guessing racism played a large role, but maybe there were some who recognized the bill had no practical solutions.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

C'mon, people, do you appreciate anything? Where are those other threads where people were singing "Kumbaya" and "A Change Gonna Come?"

I was boooooooooooooorrrrrrnnn by University of Alabama!
Where it's really tense!
Just for that Greek House, I've been applying ever since.
It's been a looooong, a long time coming
And I knooooooooow, my letters gonna come.
Ohhhhhh yes they willlllllllll....

[AnchorAlumna]

From the campus newspaper, the Crimson White:
http://cw.ua.edu/2014/03/21/sga-sena...m-integration/

and

http://cw.ua.edu/2014/04/14/sga-sena...on-resolution/