Innovation Changes Lives

Innovating long-standing precedents isn’t something that has always excited me.

However, after being elected to my fraternity’s standards board, I was given a unique

opportunity to innovate a role that closely follows the rules and constitution of our fraternity.

Entrepreneurship 252 made me understand that innovation and leadership are not just

privileges but our responsibility.

Being on a standards committee, I often have to address my brother’s worst moments.

This is a highly conflicting feeling as a brother to have to discipline them while feeling such grief.

Many brothers rely on the Constitution’s precedent sanctions to be a scapegoat for not having to

bear the weight of being responsible for holding their brothers accountable.

It is my responsibility to hold my brothers accountable, and I am willing to bear that weight, but

why?

Why do we have to make our sanctions damaging?

Oftentimes, I’ve noticed that brothers are dealing with so much remorse or grief from their worst

moments that adding disciplinary action extends their grief and builds resentment for the

chapter and its brothers.

I utilized the principles and practices of leadership and my knowledge of psychology and mental

illness to change this long-lasting precedent.

I broke us into discussing catering our sanctions towards the betterment of our brothers.

I proposed a new kind of sanction to our chapter that entirely shifted the ideology of the

committee toward rehabilitating and supporting our brothers for the better instead of disciplining

them for the worse.

This approach helped our brother grow and become a representative of our chapter whom

many can now put their trust in.

By: Jacob Borders

Year: Sophomore

Major: Psychology

Co-major: Entrepreneurship

Minor: Finance

Hometown: Westerville, Ohio

Fun fact: I can drive F1.