Three questions to the Greek Life Advisor

1.What do you feel would happen to Ball State Greek life if all of the chapters went dry?
2. Where do you see my chapter, Sigma Phi Epsilon, going in the next three years?
3. What do we have to do to get information to incoming freshman regarding Greek Life?

CRAZY

I do feel that my fraternity falls into the comfortable category a lot, but not necessarily the mediocre category. We are always at or near the top for grades, intramurals, and membership, which tends to make members feel complacent. When you are at the top for so long, you begin to feel that you will stay there no matter what you do and come to feel invulnerable. As a leader and a member, I feel this complacency is the worst thing that can happen to any organization. One thing I would do is to constantly remind members that their actions are crucial to our being successful, whether it be participation or by doing well in school. As leaders, we can set the nudge members along in order to keep them developing and not becoming complacent.

Resolutions

I feel the initial resolutions were crossed out for either not being specific or relevant enough. Sure you can read your fraternity ritual, but that doesn't mean anything if you don't act on it. The revised resolutions are better for they allow you to actually have a clear goal with clear and measurable outcomes, such as contributing over parting.
1. Be a stronger leader.  I haven't been as active and portraying a good example as I could have, so I resolve to be stronger.
2. Be productive. I find my self laying around a lot when I could be studying, working out, or doing something for the fraternity.
3.Call mom more often.  It seems that I'm never the one to call my mom lately and I really feel bad that I can't take time out of my day to call her when she does that for me. 
4. Just listen more.  People have the need to talk out what is going on in their head and I know I always appreciate when people listen to me.
5.Live my fraternity ritual.  The values in my fraternity ritual are the values that every good person should strive for.

Fraternal Thoughts Replly

I thought this article was very interesting due to the fact that I was asking the same questions when I came to college. I feel like it addresses the concerns that many people have regarding greek organizations and their actual functions. I definitely agree that fraternities should be invested and involved in society, whether it be through community service or philanthropy. I also agree with the idea that we shouldn't be labeled solely on our flaws, but also by our accomplishments. Unfortunately, bad events always seem to overpower the good events in most aspects of life. I honestly don't really disagree with anything in this article. I believe that the concepts in this article CAN be true, but it depends upon whether or not the individuals in the fraternities have the ambition and the belief to change the world. I believe fraternity is an organization that can better the individual and society around the individual. Ideally, I want those in fraternities to be the best citizens in society, but the ideals we teach do provide the means to be those citizens.