It's sad that we have to worry about such a thing as a name change to begin with.
Theoretically, they want to help, and by all means that is apprechiated (sP? i'm sorry i just woke up
) but certinly it's unnessesary after all this time.
But what i'm more worried about is that we fear change as a group. The name thing to me is just pointless, and thus i do not like the idea. But when it comes to other things, like making the ritual public, i think that's passe in order to please the public. So what if they know anything. Are we afraid that if they don't know something, they're going to try harder to shut us down around the nation?
I don't think so at all. The ritual and the morals and the ideals are all now inside, breeding, fustering, and manifesting around us due to our individual actions. WE know that, WE act as MEN, WE act as GENTELMEN, and we thus try to be just, moral, safe, and we all try to make well rounded choices.
If we all actually tried to follow the ideals and morals to the letter, we'd be amazing, the public wouldn't care anymore. .... but like someone else said, WE"RE COLLEGE STUDENTS!!!! we can't be perfect and we're far from it.
Making things public and changing names and changing image to fit in the system on campus are one in the same thing. They're trying to settle!!!!
you don't settle for anything.
you son't settle for "A Girl" in order to just have a "Girlfriend" do you? no!
it's the same in your everyday life!!!
Don't settle.
be the best you can with what you have. You are a Brother Of Lambda Chi Alpha, which is a Fraternity, not a Frat (you don't call your country a cunt now do you?).
Be not ashamed of your individuality in a group full of men. Do not be ashamed of your group mentality, but do not fear change, it will be change that will help us survive (other things besides the ritual and the name change, didn't want to go against my theses there
)
my tired two cents
in ZAX
Jacob Lee (aka Sonic)
University of Rhode Ilsand
HZ 1268