"Texas fraternity's gunfire leads to brief police standoff"

[Kevin]

Here's the thing I hate about this thread. Without a shred of evidence, many of us are ready to shut this chapter down because they MUST have been doing something horrible--and maybe they were. But as Greeks, we need to be in the business of defending our organizations to the public and realizing that most organizations have very capable alumni volunteers like us involved and people are generally making good decisions. Let's give our own the benefit of the doubt. If we are all so negative about our own, why would we expect outsiders to be any more charitable?

[generallygreek]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Here's the thing I hate about this thread. Without a shred of evidence, many of us are ready to shut this chapter down because they MUST have been doing something horrible--and maybe they were. But as Greeks, we need to be in the business of defending our organizations to the public and realizing that most organizations have very capable alumni volunteers like us involved and people are generally making good decisions. Let's give our own the benefit of the doubt. If we are all so negative about our own, why would we expect outsiders to be any more charitable?

This is fair--looking at my post now, I think it is a bit excessive for the actual reporting content of the article (though I won't edit it, since that would just be cowardly at this point). Guns and gun handling are a very inflammatory debate, I think. Our political opinions are overriding our sense of unity regarding our Greek brothers and sisters. Maybe we should take a step back until more information comes out.