Originally posted by Erik P Conard
As a former educator with a PhD and forty years of fraternity experience, I do take umbrage with the gutless administrators who do not punish the (mostly black) fraternities who parade their pledges around in the open (most do not have houses)
wearing dog collars, hob-nailed boots, branded and doing stupid antics for all to see. And the bleeding hearts, mostly of
the psychology and social science departments, say nary a thing, and hating the so-called white fraternities, are eager to throw us off the campus. These fluid-like minority clubs have no houses, do not belong to IFC, account to no one, and they go
on their merry way. It is not PC to say this, but it is really talking out of both sides of the mouth and it is an insult to the many black and other minority members in NIC fraternities. I have watched, with growing resentment, the drifiting away of these fraternities--black, latino, asian, etc. as I thought we'd leveled the
playing field...now we are growing apart! There are a goodly number of, say, blacks--in the chapters today and they have ever
been welcome in Beta, Teke, DU, AKL, others...since day one!
Ummmm, Are you a touch bit angry?
Dr. (?) Conrad,
To be a Ph. D, you sure are confused. You are so confused you almost had me confused. When I first enrolled in college quite a few years ago, one of the first GLOs to greet me was in fact your fraternity and the second group was the ACACIAs. Now I tell you this because I am about to prove a point. I went to a high school that was 98% black and I would have gone to a black college as well, but I was worried about publicity on the football field so I chose to attend a traditionally white institution. When some of my teachers from high school who are BGLO members found out what college I was attending, they made it a point to let their bruhs know that I was going to be on the yard and to look out for me. Now when it came time for recruitment period before I first stepped foot on campus, I received a letter from the TEKEs telling me to come by their house and just visit. This was something I gladly did because I hadn't heard of the organization and I wanted to know what it was about. Regardless, all the NIC groups looked at myself as not being "qualified" enough to pursue membership. I guess we were cool enough to kick it with, but not a suitable person to become a member. Anyway, I'm about to wrap this up because I could speak a month of Sundays on this issue
. To make a long story short, we have numerous NPC and NIC organizations at my school and combined they only have
two ethnic members. We have not
always been welcomed and we are not
always welcomed now. I mean just think about it; When have you ever seen a black greek put on "white face" to imitate anything historically significant to whites whether it be good or bad? Many members of the non - ethnic GLOs keep throwing greek unity in our face, but they let their mouths do the work and not their appendages. Quit building up dams and let the waters flow smoothly. That way you can see the good that all GLOs do and that can divert your attention from things that you are not comfortable with and is not part of the mainstream, but may customary or traditional for someone else.