(side note), revisited

In my post entitled (side note), I brought up the issue on house cleaning. Perhaps I didn't do myself enough justice the last time around as far as articulating my views about stuff of this magnitude is concerned. But for round two, I'm coming out swinging on things I overlooked in my last post.

House cleaning could just as well be seen as a positive for any fraternity which is seeking to improve its standing (if not its repute) & is willing to prove to the whole campus it does have a rightful place in the Greek system by changing for the better. And to do that, getting rid of the "bad apples," the dead weights or indifferent brothers is an imperative. This may sound like a real big deal to some dudes, who feel if some of their closest friends are booted from the chapter, they feel blindsided by HQ coming in to save the day. (And yet another reason why some men choose to disaffiliate from Greek life altogether.)

But thing is, getting rid of those men who don't measure up to the fraternity's standards will prove to be a plus in the long run if we stop to think about it. That's what some dudes just can't comprehend & sadly never will. Is this to say that they fall woefully short of their organization's expectations in adopting such a stubborn mindset? No. Yet if they could only stop & think about what place the chapter holds in their lives, a house cleaning could be the ultimate wake-up call which they need to rethink about the values they're not living up to as fraternity members.

Any fraternal HQ, when it comes to house purgings, can't go halfway in their approach to weeding out the undesirables and declaring them "PNG" (FYI: short for persona non grata). HQ can't do a half-baked job either in finding out who's fit to be in their organization or no. It takes patience, time, assessment after assessment (membership reviews being one of them) & lots of open lines of communication to ensure that HQ is doing the little things right in regards to house cleaning.

For any house to overcome a house cleaning, now that's the ultimate test of faith. The question is, how many men will benefit from all this? I surmise plenty will, & I speak of those men who sincerely devote every ounce of their time & energy into making their respective chapters some of the best on campus, those men who sincerely care about their house & want to see improvement where it is rightfully due, & those men who know that their chapters could be the most loved in the Greek system if they wholeheartedly want them to be. Those are the men who know the directions to take after the smoke clears, after the deadweights & problem members have been shown the door once & for all.