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5:44 AM
November 18, 2009
observingduke

Excellent editorial. With the severe repercussions of the RGAC report, there must be more conversation. Additionally, RLHS's reassignment of sections to exclude common rooms from selective living groups must be reevaluated. Common rooms provide important space for these groups without proportionally marginalizing independents.

5:50 AM
November 18, 2009
Duke Duke and M...

what does "proportionally marginalizing independents" translate to in plain English?

5:56 AM
November 18, 2009
Worldwide Pants

When is Campus Council going to stand up for students and stop getting pushed around by RLHS? The lobbying power of CC is next to nil and this process lacks transparency, consistency, and clear organizational rationale. For all we know, Joe Gonzalez is the one typing in these RGAC scores.

11:31 PM
November 18, 2009
Anatomical

There's no right way to make all of this right--in the end, no one will be happy with SLGs on West, or at least Greeks on West. The RGAC is flawed. SLGs living on West Campus is flawed. The fact that RLHS can screw SLGs whenever they want is flawed. All of these flaws don't let us see the forest through the trees--what SLGs really want is independence from a system that has them by the balls.

Personally, I think that helping these groups get houses is the best long-term solution--independents don't have to deal with SLGs on West, and SLGs get the privacy and sense of community they really want.

As a side note though...my SLG (Psi Upsilon) hasn't had a dedicated common room for more than 5 years, yet we've finished as the number one small group and fourth overall, and we've never had a problem establishing a little niche for ourselves while still maintaining good relationships with the independents who live on our hall. In fact, we chose to stay in our common room-less, independent-bordered section because such a system actually does work if you give it a chance. Funny how that works out, yet IFC would have you thinking all of this is Armageddon for fraternities.