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Originally Posted by Kevin
Alcohol abuse isn't a threat to the entire organization for us. It's something which sometimes becomes tragic, but in many of these cases, those who drink assume the risk of their drinking. It's a free choice. Free choices come with consequences.
And again, I gave the hypo of 6 of your members getting together with their significant others and some randos. Is that an SGR event? What an "event" consists of has been a real problem as some would define an event as a gathering of 2 or more members.
That's a little much to be placing on the shoulders of alumni volunteers.
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Alcohol abuse is a threat to the entire organization if it is being done in the name of a fraternity event. John Q. Public will not split hairs over whether or not a fraternity is IFC, NIC, NPHC, MCGLO. John Q. Public hears one term, "Greek Life". GLOs are all the same to them. For John Q. Public to hear that a young man died as a result of alcohol abuse at a fraternity event is enough for the public to pass judgement on Greek Life, a very negative judgement.
And please, you are too knowledgeable to be so flippant. Young men have died. It was last year or so that a young man died at the TAMU Sigma Nu fraternity house because of a drug overdose. So please, don't be so flippant about this.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/AM...390813801.html
If it is 6 of our members just hanging out with some randos whatever happens is on them. If it is 6 of our members at a sanctioned chapter event with some randos, then that falls on the sorority.
The way my org is structured is the Graduate Chapter (Alumni chapter) advises an undergraduate chapter. If an Alumna wants to volunteer to work with an undergraduate chapter, she must do so by being in good financial standing with the sorority at the local, regional and international levels. She must be elected by the sponsoring Graduate chapter members to function as an undergraduate adviser. She must go through the most current training of policies and procedures to advise an undergraduate chapter. We have a very structured way of managing our undergraduate chapters.
Just because one of our members may want to volunteer, she just can't do that. She must go through the proper channels. So for us (and other NPHC member orgs) there is serious responsibility placed on undergraduate chapter advisers. Everyone knows the structure so everyone abides by the rules. If you don't you get kicked out of the org. Rogue members (be they undergrad or grad) are not worth the risk.
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