Muffy -
The ideas that are outdated, useless, underinformed, and generally poorly regarded are the ones you're showing us today. You have culled your opinions of greek life from pop-culture movies made just after I was born, and from accounts that are hearsay and second-hand at best.
I don't pay for a single one of my friends, and I don't attend "cheerleading camp" on any scale. I am not a jock, a bonehead, a drug addict, a meathead, an asshole, or whatever brush you desire to paint me with - instead, I am taking classes at Boston University to get an education, as part of a challenging major, and am doing very well - very similar to what you proclaim to have done at Rutgers. The fraternity represents a group of people that I share a common bond and interest with, not a group of instant friends - I have great friends outside of my house, as well as some on the inside. Dues go toward functions of the group, whatever they may be - not to any person as 'payment' for friendship, and the very notion of this is ridiculous. Money cannot buy friendship, and I can tell you first-hand this is a universal truth.
My organization is in no way vacuous - instead, it was founded on virtue and character, and exists to this day upon those same principles. You cannot convince me that all things banal exist only in the greek system; instead, when these things are represented w/in the greek system, they do so because they exist in life. Things like hair-care products and television shows, while "vacuous" to you (and others i'm sure), are a part of life, and are parts that many people take seriously. Instead of judging people based upon their affiliation with a particular group, perhaps you should take each person on his or her individual worth, and stop bashing a system which you have no first-hand knowledge of other than simplistic observation (which does not make for a suitable assay in this instance).
While I'm sure you find it deplorable that this site exists to cater to the entertainment and support needs of the greek community, I would like to know why you linger here - I find it of inordinate stupidity that you bash a site you continue to post at. Your opinions are rehashed from arguments that hold little water, and you will recieve no support for them here. If you would like to continue an argument on a purely intellectual level, I invite you to - but please do not continue the petty generalizations that you have brandished thus far.
-Rob
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