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Originally Posted by 1964Alum
It is not clear to me what these two fraternities hope to accomplish. ALL GLOs are on campuses at the pleasure of the hosting college or university. So there is an obligation to accept and abide by the standards and policies of their host as well as their own standards. And the wider community consists of the laws of the land. Any thoughts about what they hope to accomplish?
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No, not all GLOs are on campuses at the pleasure of the hosting institution. We belong to IFC at their pleasure, but enjoy our right of free association whether they choose to recognize us or not. ATO and KA Order are clearly sending a signal that they would rather not be subject to the whims of whatever overreaction the University has to the next incident.
While they are certainly depriving themselves of the benefits of participating in formal recruitment, they have clearly decided that they prefer that to having to the school's proposed status quo.
I agree in principle with what they've done here and wish more groups would go this route.
While we have to obey the law, it is our option to have a formal relationship with the university where are members are matriculates. Should the host institution treat us unfairly, it is our option to withdraw from that formal relationship and do whatever we want to do within the law. Universities do not write the law. We only formally associate because our organizations find it mutually beneficial. If they behave as UVA has here, perhaps the relationship is no longer working out.
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