“CalGreeks members should set the gold standard in alcohol safety. We should support the pillar for partying for fun not to get wasted. We are the party leaders so we need to set the bar for fun partying, not scary partying”
OUTCOME
- Need to redefine the role of GAMMA and make this group more effective at addressing alcohol abuse in the CalGreeks Community.
- Need to provide more peer education and mentoring to address alcohol and substance abuse in the CalGreeks Community.
- Housed chapter social events must have security.
- Non-salty food needs to be present at all social events where alcohol is present, and in sufficient quantity.
- All aspects of IFC Recruitment need to be alcohol-free. IFC needs to develop a mechanism that makes this a reality; otherwise we make it appear as if joining our community is just about partying and not about values.
- Require that all housed fraternities and sororities to have a full-time, live-in House Director, trained by UC Berkeley.
- Post annual house inspections (fire, sanitation, etc.) on the http://greeks.berkeley.edu web site.
- Provide annual training to House Corporations on disaster preparedness through the City of Berkeley.
Social events already have security. What's new about this?
ReplyDeleteThe alcohol education programs suck. Why should we go to more?
ReplyDeleteWhat safety walking around the community? That's probably the biggest concern of every sorority member on campus. We don't feel safe walking around, even in groups. What about creating a blue light system that connects directly to emergency services. At the very least, we need much more lighting in our neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteYikes, again with the house director! And trained by Cal? So you want a Greek organization to pay for a house director, but tat person is trained by the school? How about letting private ownership work at Cal like it does everywhere else in this country!
ReplyDeleteYou actually incorporate a bullet point about having non-salty foods at social events, but there isn't anything about safety of men and women traveling from their residence to other places? Remember the rapist from last year?
ReplyDeleteThe idea of a live in House Director is not logical and does not support the diversity the university holds dear. I am assuming this is a second full time staff person you are requiring in the house, because this staff person is living in, and is trained differently. So we have more funds having to be paid by students and the university. Not logical because the houses are already full of some of the smartest and most mature adults you can find in Berkeley. Not ethical because the salary to pay for this full time person will again prevent low income students from joining the greek system. The university can't be happy about you proposing a restriction on diversity like this. The greek system should be a good citizen and work to pay for itself. We should not have to take university funds for training or for anything else.
I agree with anonymous above. Having a live-in "Director" that is trained by CalGreeks would pretty much have to be trained by the individual fraternities and sororities as well. Every house has a different personality, I guess I would call it, and disrupting that personality by inserting some higher power can be detrimental to the morale of the house. IF the Greek system is priding itself on the ability to train leaders, then they should trust such leaders to take care of their chapters.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the presence of such a person would force people who are participating in such "risky behavior" as drinking alcohol behind closed doors, which is much more dangerous than having an openly accepting environment. I would like to know the reasoning behind bringing this third party into the house and what their duties and expectations would be.
I think a trained UC Berkeley House Director living in would be a huge detriment to the Greek System. The Greek system teaches leadership, independence, and decision-making. A House Director would take away future students ability to grow as people and their ability to make decision without someone watching them. The Greek system has helped mold gifted and intellectual students into the men and women who run our country today. I think taking away future students ability to grow as individuals and run a house internally hurts what Greek life has been fostering for decades.
ReplyDeleteI have read some of these comments and as one individual says that the Greek houses are full of some mature and smart individuals. If this is true why don't they act like it
ReplyDeleteA live-in House Director and food at each engagement would cost an obscene amount of money (not to mention the opportunity cost of another live-in and more decorations for the party) and be almost completely useless. Please let the Greek community make its own decisions with its own money.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above, there are bigger issues to be concerned with.
ReplyDeleteA House Director is an expensive and poorly thought out choice for both Cal and fraternities and sororities. You hope it would provide some safety, reassurance, and benefit, but in the end it just becomes another expensive joke as each organization (many which have existed strongly for well over 100 years) find ways to get around anything Cal would put in place.