Originally posted by Ole Cabbagehead:
Originally posted by Scarlet Pride:
Originally posted by PeteGiam07:
I don't think it will get extended. There were "blackout" periods when I was there in the early to mid 2000's too.
I just don't understand Dean Arnholt. After all these years no one has put pressure on her to formulate some kind of current and future Rutgers plan for greek life? She has been coasting at that position for years. I wish they would get some new blood in there.
Agreed. She's been there 20 years and we've never had even an attempt at a vision for the future of the Greek system. Incremental changes have happened but it's mostly just living year to year. Maybe that's a resource issue or maybe its not but after 20 years of stagnation it's time for major changes. Unfortunately I think the university will need to be pushed into it so it will be on the organizations to think, plan, and act big.
I've always just assumed that Dean Arnholt's objective was to gradually eliminate the fraternity system at Rutgers. It seems like at least one house gets eliminated every year since she has been at the school (or at least since I attended), so I assume she has been hitting her bonus targets. That is really the only thing that makes sense. If the goal was not in fact to eliminate the fraternity system, I cannot fathom how she has been employed for this long. Zero workable solutions have been offered, and, to the contrary, the restrictions put in place seem to make violations inevitable.
Ultimately, the entire fraternity system is seriously flawed because of liability decisions made in the courts. Affiliated fraternity chapters expose the school and the national fraternity organizations to liability. As such, most of the national organizations are really nothing more than glorified insurance companies at this point. All they care about is the volume of new dues paying "brothers" and risk insurance. The schools are only willing to tolerate them if the risk profile falls in line with the fraternity chapters being essentially operated like another dorm. To my knowledge, that is the only way it is really working anywhere, including down south.
What I don't understand is why the fraternities aren't just operating on a non-affiliated "underground" basis. Why even try to be affiliated with Rutgers? If anyone could shed light on that I would be very interested, because I figure there must be a reason I am missing. To me, it seems like the answer to all of this is for students of a kicked out fraternity to just rent a house and put letters up. No national organization, no Rutgers administration, no reports, no charity, no nothing. In charge of your own brotherhood process (subject to criminal anti-hazing laws, obviously).