Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity
Fraternities are becoming more about parties than leadership activities. They are actively causing a negative role in a student's life rather than being a positive involvement. Students involved in fraternities are engaging in frequent consumption of alcohol, which has resulted in poor grades, alcohol, drug abuse, and has even led to accidents and deaths. Fraternities are meant to be held in high regard as leaders in which members share goals and values.
The alumni, students, faculty and university officials are all involved in the structuring of a fraternity, and in this case, they lacked some involvement. Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity has had several repeated alcohol incidents, some causing drug abuse or deaths. When administration or faculty is not clearly involved, students may take advantage of the situation and do things that they normally would not be able to do if proper rules were met and enforced. Students that want to join the fraternity have to do certain things in order to get initiated, some things that may be dangerous or cause harm to them in a way that may not be obvious at the time.
I think that university officials and faculty want to control the fraternity and keep students from drinking and getting poor grades; however they cannot always control those issues. In reality, faculty can only do so much ? the rest is in the student's hands. Officials or faculty can set rules and guidelines for the fraternity, but the members can always break them.
The problem in this case is that there is not enough reinforcement of rules and regulations by university officials and faculty in regards to the fraternity and its members. They encourage the fraternity ...