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Students raised their concerns about the proposed changes with Frohnmayer at a meeting of the Associated Students Presidential Advisory Council in early May. With the help of ASUO, on May 14 they started a student calling campaign to the president’s office asking him to postpone signing the proposal. “We didn’t ask him not to sign it,” Ray said. “We asked him to wait for more consideration of student voices.” Three days after the calling cam paign began, Frohnmayer approved the proposal. He said he decided to approve it despite student concerns because the greek social policy is a serious issue involving more people than just students. “We’re not going to sit on our hands while there are tragedies waiting to happen,” he said. After the president’s decision was announced, Ray said IFC and Panhellenic leaders received a let ter notifying them of the deadlines Deadlines for new greekstandards Sept. 1: Chapter house corporations required to submit a letter of intent showing they will comply With the new standards by Decemner Dec. 15: Chapters that have not submitted a written agreement by this date will lose University affiliation and a letter will be sent to the chapter’s national organization asking that the house’s charter he revoked. Chapters will he evaluated to check their progress six months and one year after the new standards take effect. Chapters that have not met the standards at the six-month checkpoint will be placed on endorsement probation and w$ lose affiliation if not in compliance by the next evaluation. greek chapters would have to meet in order to maintain Univer sity affiliation. Since then, they haven’t met with, or heard from, administrators. “Everything has been so vague and they’re leaving it to us to have jurisdiction over it,” she said. Greek chapters are required to submit a written agreement by Sept. 1 showing that they will com ply with the new standards by De cember. If the administration does not receive that agreement by Dec. 15, the chapter will lose University affiliation and the president will write a letter to the chapter’s na tional organization asking that the house’s charter be revoked. Lobisser said chapters that do sign will be evaluated to check their six-month and 12-month progress, in effect giving them a year to comply with the new stan dards. Chapters will be judged ac cording to nonsubjective, specific standards and some leeway will be given to chapters working to change, he said. Administrators un derstand, for example, that chap ters with low GPAs may not be able to raise them to the University over all average quickly, he said. “You must make steady progress,” he said. “If (the average GPA) is moving up, you’re making progress and you’re in compliance.” The standards are so new that specific endorsement requirements haven’t been put in writing yet, Lo bisser said. With only two weeks left in the term and most greek stu dent leaders gone for the summer, Ray and Lee said they need more time and more concrete definitions of what constitutes progress to work with. “Progression is the vaguest term you can use,” Ray said. “We need some things on paper.” They want to know exactly how much chapter GPAs will need to go up for them to be in compli ance. They wonder how the Uni versity will be able to accurately evaluate more subjective areas such as the contribution a chapter makes to the community. “These are the kinds of things that should have been considered before this decision was made,” Ray said. While any large organization has problems, Lee said the greek sys tem is not in the state of crisis it’s been portrayed to be in. “It feels very much blown out of proportion,” he said. Ray said the new standards seem to be aimed less at finding a realis tic solution to problems than at im proving the University’s image. “I feel like decisions were made on the basis of what looks good,” she said. “It looks good that we’re going to go dry. ... But it’s going to take us a while to get there. ” E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell atkaracogswell@dailyemerald.com. How would you score? Take the Kaplan 10 Question Challenge! 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