Members of Ohio State’s fraternities and sororities clashed with David Williams II, vice president of student affairs, and members of the Greek Life Task Force over the task force’s recommendations to improve the Ohio State greek system at a meeting Tuesday.Williams said he set up the meeting in order to obtain more feedback from the community before the plan goes into action Spring Quarter.”I think it was a good meeting,” said Kathy Sapp, president of the Women’s Panhellenic Association. “Dialogue was needed and a lot of points were taken on both sides.”Williams agreed.”A lot of issues came up that I want to look into further,” he said. The next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 29 at 4 p.m. in the Ohio Union Terrace Room.The major issues of disagreement were over recommendations to implement a 2.25 minimum grade-point average for all members of the greek community and the creation of a Greek Standards Board that would review each chapter’s progress toward the achievement of those goals as well as non-academic goals.Several members from the governing councils in attendance objected to the Greek Standards Board’s punitive power and its composition. “It takes power away from a democratically-elected body,” said Andy Kuhlman, Inter-Fraternity Council Director of New Member Recruitment. “Individual fraternities and sororities should be able to police themselves on some levels.”Members of the task force were quick to argue that the Standards Board is not meant to be disciplinary, but to help each chapter meet the goals that the chapter sets for itself.”It’s not the kind of punitive atmosphere I sense people are suspicious of,” said Barbie Tootie, a member of the task force. “It’s to help the chapters meet their goals.”Williams did acknowledge that if, in the extreme, a chapter refuses to set up any standards or refuses to make progress, the Standards Board can impose standards. It can even recommend a charter of a fraternity or sorority be revoked, after every coercive measure has been exhausted.Various fraternity and sorority representatives objected to imposing a minimum grade-point average because it could turn away potential members. Fraternities and sororities now have minimum grade point requirements of 2.25 or higher so the university’s policy would only be redundant and harmful during recruitment, Sapp said. If students have a bad Autumn Quarter and the university imposes a minimum GPA, then they won’t be able to attend recruitment functions. Others said the requirement was imposing increased the bureaucracy of the greek system.”We didn’t want to legislate GPAs,” said Maurice Shipley, a task force representative. “But we needed a way to acknowledge the importance of academic achievement.”Formal rush was another point of interest. Kuhlman and other representatives of fraternities said that deferred rush, formal recruitment after Autumn Quarter, was a bad idea because it “cuts out a key recruitment period when the fraternities are already having recruitment problems.” “The task force should help us to recruit new members rather than defer rush,” Kuhlman said.Several sorority members also indicated that deferring their rush period until Winter Quarter was not entirely successful and created many difficulties.Williams indicated that he wanted to look at the grade-point averages of first quarter new members before making a decision on a deferred rush.The representatives of the greek community all seemed to agree that they did not have enough input in the past on the creation of these recommendations, but Williams reassured them that they would be involved in present and future up takings.”You will be involved,” he said. “I promise it. You have my guarantee.”