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Issue date: 7/5/07 Section: Opinions
Let's make a deal
University moves three fraternities to River Road site, but Chi Phi stays
Our long campuswide nightmare is over ... sort of.
This week, three of the Lumpkin Street fraternities - Pi Kappa Alpha, Tau Epsilon Phi and Phi Delta Theta - agreed to relocate to River Road after nearly two years of ultimatums, threats and standoffs with University officials.
The land deal is beneficial for all concerned parties. The three fraternities join Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau Omega on River Road, potentially forming the basis for a newly-relocated fraternity row, while the University gets to use the fraternities' present sites for an eventual, much-needed expansion of residential and academic space.
Three fraternities remain on Lumpkin, though, preventing full implementation of this aspect of the University Master Plan. Kappa Alpha is already moving off campus, while Sigma Chi has already extended its lease on its current site.
That leaves Chi Phi lone among the fraternities by refusing to relocate, while offering no alternative solution itself.
Yes, that Chi Phi, the one with a proud tradition of distributing Black Tail magazine and getting arrested at formals.
Why is the University playing soft toss with the leadership of this organization, even after members of Chi Phi have exhibited a sustained, consistent pattern of criminal behavior?
By continuing to extend the deadline for agreeing on the proposed land deal, the University is playing nice with Chi Phi, even after multiple instances of brothers behaving badly while sullying the reputation of both organizations.
At this point, it's a small wonder that the University has allowed this sort of behavior to continue on a piece of its own prime real estate. By placing itself subservient to an organization that has continued to promote criminal activity, the University sends the wrong message.
At long last, the University is going through the motions of exercising some semblance of control over the monolithic Greek presence within the student culture.
By attempting to move fraternities to a less central location on campus, the University seems to be attempting to show its denizens what should be the center of attention: academics.
However, that it allows Chi Phi to thumb its collective nose in the face of progress signifies that, until the University grows a spine, nothing will have really been accomplished at all.
University moves three fraternities to River Road site, but Chi Phi stays
Our long campuswide nightmare is over ... sort of.
This week, three of the Lumpkin Street fraternities - Pi Kappa Alpha, Tau Epsilon Phi and Phi Delta Theta - agreed to relocate to River Road after nearly two years of ultimatums, threats and standoffs with University officials.
The land deal is beneficial for all concerned parties. The three fraternities join Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau Omega on River Road, potentially forming the basis for a newly-relocated fraternity row, while the University gets to use the fraternities' present sites for an eventual, much-needed expansion of residential and academic space.
Three fraternities remain on Lumpkin, though, preventing full implementation of this aspect of the University Master Plan. Kappa Alpha is already moving off campus, while Sigma Chi has already extended its lease on its current site.
That leaves Chi Phi lone among the fraternities by refusing to relocate, while offering no alternative solution itself.
Yes, that Chi Phi, the one with a proud tradition of distributing Black Tail magazine and getting arrested at formals.
Why is the University playing soft toss with the leadership of this organization, even after members of Chi Phi have exhibited a sustained, consistent pattern of criminal behavior?
By continuing to extend the deadline for agreeing on the proposed land deal, the University is playing nice with Chi Phi, even after multiple instances of brothers behaving badly while sullying the reputation of both organizations.
At this point, it's a small wonder that the University has allowed this sort of behavior to continue on a piece of its own prime real estate. By placing itself subservient to an organization that has continued to promote criminal activity, the University sends the wrong message.
At long last, the University is going through the motions of exercising some semblance of control over the monolithic Greek presence within the student culture.
By attempting to move fraternities to a less central location on campus, the University seems to be attempting to show its denizens what should be the center of attention: academics.
However, that it allows Chi Phi to thumb its collective nose in the face of progress signifies that, until the University grows a spine, nothing will have really been accomplished at all.
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Jim
posted 7/05/07 @ 6:18 PM EST
I love to hear about Chi Phi. Great job keeping us posted in the summer months.
Gifford Holt
posted 7/09/07 @ 2:36 AM EST
They are right next to downtown. Almost every night there is a party at Chi Phi...girls, booze, coke, pot. Why would they want to leave such a prime spot? And the UGA police seem to do nothing there, if they moved off campus ACCPD would surely not tolerate the animal house that UGA does. (Continued…)
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