balanced man program?

The Balanced Man Program is hardly a program - don’t let the name fool you. It’s synonymous with tradition; It’s synonymous with lifestyle. It’s a way of being, surviving, and excelling as better, “balanced” men through an ever-changing, dynamic society. We bond with beliefs - those strong enough to outweigh the temptations of alcohol, and the senseless “fun” behind pledge education. Through establishing connections as brothers and as lifelong friends upon accepting bids from our fraternity, new members are able to receive adequate resources from their very first day. It’s family - plain and simple. And “Mentoring” is just one of the five pillars of our philosophy; the other four are love, sobriety, sobriety, and real estate. It’s a hands-on, real-world leadership and professional skills development experience. One that builds balance. Balance in life, balance in leisure, balance as men. This is The Balanced Man Program.

What's "Balance Man"? Is it like gymnastics and stuff? Honestly, pledge olympics can be pretty funny.

SigEp's substance-free facility is always cleaner and smells nicer than a facility regularly used for parties. A clean house is more desirable for hosting faculty, friends, and parents.

Sad to watch what's happening.

"It's a Family" - yeah, the Turpin family and nationals are the perverted abusive parents

If only they had only embraced the Balanced Man Pogrom, then they would have been successful.

They will be substance free in 2020 and already had a huge amount of brothers/pledges drop or go early alumni because of this. Obviously a fraternity is about more than just parties but it is a huge incentive for people to join, why not reward yourself after studying hard all semester? It is shocking to see his far they have fallen since last years announcement of the substance free policy.

They do group yoga and drink cucumber water together as a PC. It's actually cool.

I am confused why the national didn't aggressively work with the local to root out the source of the issues in terms of specific individuals being terminated. I think it was at FL a few years ago that a national worked with a local house to terminate 10 members that they believed contributed to the risk mgmt issues that were a source of concern. The house then stayed on probation for another year and then was off of probation and hasn't had issues since. I haven't heard that anything like that happened here. I believe the issues were serious to close the house but not so sure the leadership from national was proactive and strong enough to resolve the situation such that the house didn't have to close. I heard from a friend at Mizzou that the Sig Ep situation there was somewhat similar in that the national tried a few things for a year to address risk issues but that they threw in the towel once the trust was broken too many times. My friend thought that if the exec leadership had been turned over and a few cliques removed from the house that things perhaps could have been changed. It's always a difficult call on how to change a house culture but closing a house seems quite drastic.

Yeah honestly this did not work as well as anticipated