In an atmosphere where the prevailing mood is "reform or get packing," it seems that some fraternities, even if they got the message numerous times from their respective headquarters, just don't get it. Or worse yet, they don't want to listen to the ominous warnings from HQ at all. This makes for one less house in the Greek system & one less problem for IFC to worry about, right? For the most part, yes.
But fraternities whose history has been nothing except a lenghy tome of run-ins with the law, behavioral problems & other outright negative headlines - well, it's up to them whether they want to improve their status on campus or not. If they blatantly choose to stay stuck in their rut & regress even further into far worse antics, HQ is more than happy to come to the rescue (either by revoking their charters, suspending their chapters indefinitely or a dreaded house cleaning).
Then again, closing down a house to eradicate the "frat-boy" culture isn't enough. Neither is suspending the chapter for who knows how long. Same with house cleanings. The will to change a fraternity for the better starts with the heart & not solely with the mind.
Of course, this change isn't going to occur overnight; it takes time. It takes waiting it out. It takes perseverance. And most of all, it takes a whole lot of faith & hope to assure us that Alpha Kappa is sincerely making a comeback of the ages, not as one of the Greek system's premier party houses, but as one of the top chapters on campus with a 3.1 GPA as well as one chapter with plenty of duders who are involved in various campus organizations & are making strides to make their presences felt inside & outside the Greek community.
As for those chapters who deliberately stay their course, they only have themselves to blame once HQ steps up & does the inevitable. What then? what then?
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