Throughout the last year, greek community leaders have combined forces with university administration and State College Borough officials in attempts to make the greek community better. There were wristbands, ID cards, rape-free zone signs, sexual assault training and a "Return to Glory" campaign.

The four councils have identified the problems last May through a process called Appreciative Inquiry. Through this, they are going to try to find the ways to fix these problems, and ways to restore the image of the greek community.

The idea behind this is good, fraternities are supposed to be service organizations, and recently, some fraternities at Penn State have had less than stellar images, with counts of serving alcohol to minors, lack of care for their houses, and loud parties that disturb State College residents. So what good will identifying and proposing solutions to problems of the greek community do?

Despite the compliance of the university and the borough, their efforts are falling on deaf ears, because the fraternities that are the problem don't care.

There are still fraternities holding parties without checking student IDs and giving out wristbands. Pledges are being sent to sexual assault training instead of fraternity presidents. And the greek leaders cannot do much more to change that.

Until the entire greek community decides to support their leaders' efforts, the idea for change will be just that--an idea. All the Interfraternity, Panhellenic, National Panhellenic and Multicultural councils can do is discuss, plan and encourage change. None of the councils can actually force the greek community to stand behind their decisions.

There are over 85 chapters within the four councils, and every single one has to comply to the new regulations in order to make a difference. And don't we want to make a difference? Do fraternity and sorority members enjoy being part of a community whose image is becoming tainted, not only among students but among their neighbors and university officials as well? The Interfraternity Council will be holding executive board elections by the end of this month. Though some of the current officers are running for new positions, the majority of the board will be different and will have different ideas.

The efforts that have been made thus far to help the greek community "Return to Glory" need to continue with the next executive board in order for there even to be a chance for change. And unless the entire greek community starts to listen, the new greek councils will have to deal with the same problem of talking about change rather than having the power to implement it.