I swear my viewpoint on this is NOT related to the fact that the chapter in question is my own sorority
because I hate hate hate it when other people on GC defend a chapter's obviously wrong behavior just because it's their own GLO.
Just to clear some things up, sometimes in Tri Delta, the RM chair and the social chair are one in the same. This is the case in my chapter although I don't know if it's true for Stanford. This is a good idea in theory, intended to keep the social chair from planning inappropriate events. But in reality I think it often leads to a conflict of interest since the RM chair's responsibility is to make sure everybody stays safe and the social chair's responsibility is to make sure everybody has fun, and as we all know, in college those two do not always go hand in hand. I can't even imagine how difficult of a job it is to balance those two.
That said, as a Tri Delt I am embarassed by the way the "Big Sisters" behaved. As a woman, though, I am incredibly glad that they were responsible enough to report what happened, knowing that they would probably get punished for it, after the sexual assault occurred. At many, many sorority houses across the nation that would not happen, and in fact I'm sure at some, the girls would be pressured into staying silent for the sake of the group -- and I am really glad that that's not what happened here. It sounds like, from the articles, that both the individuals in question and the chapter itself realized that this was a major mistake and have been working to take some sort of responsibility for their actions.
Like I said in the Bucknell thread, Tri Delta has been cracking down pretty hard on risk management violations over the past year or so and I'm sure they will be paying very close attention to this chapter. It sounds like there was a major lapse in judgement both by the women involved and by the way the university is handling the situation, but it sounds like from what people have posted that the girls are getting their heads on straight and they will come out of this fine.
Hybrid Mode
