Members of the greek community will meet with representatives of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations today to discuss improving relationships between the two groups.
The meeting will be at 8 p.m at Lafayette Square in Brody Hall.
Assistant Director of Student Life Billy Molasso said the meeting will be a good opportunity for students to voice their concerns about relations between police officials and students.
But the meeting will take place in a smaller setting with the hope that students will feel more comfortable talking with the task force, Molasso said.
“As opposed to 400 people, we’ll have a small number of task force members and a small number of greeks to really talk about what’s out there and talk about what’s on students’ minds,” he said.
The meeting is aimed toward relations between police officials and greeks, but any interested students can attend, Molasso said.
“I suspect that the issues that we talk about are going to be greek-related, whether about tailgating or security issues for greek events,” he said.
Ginny Haas, executive director of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations, said the intentional small size of the meeting will help students open up about issues of which they are concerned.
“We have the public forum that the entire task force attends,” she said. “This is the same concept, but a much smaller scale.”
Haas said Panhellenic Council President Kristy Tippen, also a representative on the task force, was instrumental in organizing the event.
“We suggested to student representatives on the task force if they wanted to have small meetings with task force members to talk about issues they thought the Task Force on Student-Police Relations wanted to talk about,” she said. “Kristy thought that was a good idea, putting a small group of task force members together to discuss issues that greeks think are important.”
Tippen said she thinks the meeting will be effective in improving student-police relations.
“This is a mini forum to get more feedback from people and tap into people we work with and what kind of issues they think about between students and police,” she said.
