This is a general response to all of you. You all remind me of the Dean in Animal House that decided to CAncel Fun, I am sure he was consistant with the laws of his day as well as well meaning.
Some of you need to realize that you have so completely become your parents that I question your ages.
Before you jump all over me . . . think about it, I could close my eyes and hear a parental figure talking, and parents are more about control than safety.
We had a Geek retreat this year and one of the presenters was an acting Greek Advisor to one of the largest Greek Systems in the country.
Naturally we had to touch on Risk management, although to do him credit he did not talk the issue to death.
But during it he brought up the fact that their panhell just voted everyone but 2 not to have events with fraternities in their houses that are not dry. He alluded that these girls that voted no were somehow betraying their fellow female Greeks because they might violate the ruling and mix with non-dry fraternities anyway.
Whereas I just replied that they were expressing their democratic freedom in expressing their reasoned beliefs. But he clearly showed the bias of the administration.
Then he proceded to state that people felt badly against Greeks because Greeks could get away with anything they wanted and have these big parties etc.
At this point I had to rise wondering if the air was the same on his planet.
1. Greeks are held to a higher standard for alcohol and conduct than any other random collection of people in a college.
2. Greeks, unlike your normal beer swilling, opposite sex macking, post adolescent humans , in hormone overload ALSO do community service and perform necessary tasks for the community.
3. The difference between the generalized GDI and Greek: they both go out and party till dawn BUT the Greek gets up at 9pm to help others while the GDI gets to sleep in, eat corn flakes, and watch Gilligan's Island.
To give the advisor a lot of credit, he stood back and said he stood corrected, but I doubt if his administrative point of view changed.
If I personally could live the life of animal house, or even the life the media portrays Greek Fraternities as having: Permanent indentured servitude, constant sex by multiple partners, a drunken haze, and then destined to be a CEO in a top 500 company or on top of the world politically . . . well that would make a hell of a Rush idea.
But alas I am so contantly being nipped at by the moral majority, many of them Greeks that have become self-abusers, that I am lucky to have an occasional cocktail or ask the opposite sex out in the manner of which I believe Occidental college had become famous in its political correctness with permission slips signed by the female permitting certain degrees of sexual advancements.
Sheez before its all over we will all be prematurely old, neuter, fun less, and more concerned with preventing people from developing free and personal expression or to creating a gray juiceless society than having any semblance of fullfillment!
The bottom line is this:
1.Greeks are taken from the general population.
2. We have more social events available than normal.
3. We have more members of the opposite sex available than normal.
4. Most social events Greek or non-Greek have alcohol.
The most important thing to realize is that we are easy to pick on because we are identifiable AS a certain population. . . We are GREEK. Its a lazy man's attack.
Do I drink because I am Greek . . . NO !(I drink to stop the voices in my head, but that is another post) Do I have more occasion to drink because I am Greek . . . NO because I am one of the most social people I know which is why many of you are outposting me 10 to one.
Although there are other Fraternities that party more than mine in a more fun way which might inspre me to party and drink more.
Stop believing the bad press about yourselves and start thinking rationally about what other people are saying. Are some of these things like drinking and hazing problems? Maybe, but maybe not defined the way the moral majority defines it. . .
Brrr. I have to go I'm missing a party now, feel free to attack me I promise to dissect you later.
[This message has been edited by James (edited May 02, 2001).]
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