(Serious) Practical strategies for reform
by: please help
Hey all,
I'm currently having discussions with some WashU administration, and one thing they mentioned is they would like to see concrete, practical steps from both abolition and reform supporters. I volunteered to collect some ideas for reform (on any scale).
Please comment with any idea you have regarding reform, no matter how small or large, and I'll add it to the list!
#1by: Love this
Comment#2by: Hmm
1) Go need blind. That would include making it against chapter policy to speculate on 'ability to pay dues' when deciding who gets a bid.
2) Commit to a reasonable minimum budget for financial aid. This means the chapter commits to covering all demonstrated need totaling up to at least the minimum.
3) Remove or alter any mandetory events that encourage or require excessive spending, which would include big/little reveal for soritities. A good fix might be to enforce a spending limit on big/little reveal gifts to $20 or something like that.
4) Highly encourage any incident reports received by the chapter to passed on by the reporter to the university. Make abodantly clear that the most appropriate place to report incidents is directly to the university and that the Greek judiciary committees can only do so much. To achieve propped accountability the cases need to be, with the consent of the reporter, moved outside the Greek Institutions hands.
#3by: RealIdeas
The SU fund for low income students should be allowed to subsidize GL (it currently does not)
Events that celebrate a certain culture or tradition should partner with the student group to ensure it is acceptable (like if people wanted a cinco de mayo party, they should get pointers from ALAS) because it is better to celebrate cultures respectfully rather than not celebrate them at all.
Better education about GL. WashU tries to keep it under wraps. There should be educational events advertised across the South 40 for students to attend and learn about GL. Most people don’t even know there is an interest form that must be signed at least a week before rush starts.
Sorority rush should happen during regular school days just like fraternity rush because not everyone can just come a week early
Better education regarding cost of attendance of GL
by: Ha
Imagine thinking SigEp represents the patriarchy. The lettuce eating club is more of a fraternity than they are
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by: These are good
For the big-little stuff, we’ve also talked about beyond having maximum budgets asking graduating seniors to donate gear they no longer want/aren’t giving to specific people to a general chapter-wide pile that can be redistributed to women taking littles with financial concerns and/or to general women in the chapter who otherwise would not be able to pay into gear so they can continue to have new items to wear.
It’s just a start but it’s also better for the environment to continue to recycle and pass around clothes, and we also want to talk about cutting down on gear orders and making sure what we order as a chapter is as affordable as possible.
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