support from internationals

[phigamucsb]

I am sure everyone has seen the thread about my chapters alleged hazing. During this time our headquarters has taken a firm stance and backed our chapter more than we could ever wish for. My question is do other international/national headquarters have your guys' back. The point of this thread is to find out if your headquarters has your back in times of recruitment need, not in times of all the mess we are in. This thread was sparked, because tonight I met a few LXA pledges. Their house used to be one of the top dogs on campus, but they had to go through a nasty membership review that left their house with hardly any members. The LXA has been busting their you know whats but to hardly any avail. I think in situations like this headquarters needs to step in and help. What do you guys think?

[Kevin]

A lot of the time, "help" can come in different forms. IHQ's #1 priority should always be avoiding liability to itself. Once this is done, they should focus on keeping chapters healthy and chartered. Their last priority is the happiness/enjoyment of the members of their chapters.

It sounds like they either don't think you haze or they don't think what you're accused of merits the type of attention the university is giving you. That's always a good sign.

It's great they're trying to support you. Hopefully ya'll will actually reform assuming you have problems. At my school, we recently had two fraternities that were turned in for hazing violations. Their (I)HQ's came in and cleaned house. One organization had excellent alum support, the remaining members worked their butts off for recruitment, and was back on its feat in no time. The other had virtually none and have become the house that takes guys no one else will give bids to.

From what I can tell, both organizations are actually better off now than they were before.

I will agree with you though, different organizations handle these things differently. You, personally are probably lucky that your organization didn't decide to "clean house" as this is a common solution when these kinds of accusations fly. Best of luck.