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Well, are you going to college or university, what about the brother?
And he fits into the class I described as taking a year off thus also causing a spike in the next year's graduating class. I myself may take a year off and travel or work or do whatever.. Personally I wouldn't mind taking a year off and writing an oral biography of my old hs. Great way to build contacts and also learn a hell of a lot at the same time.
Lot more kids of course will be applying to grad school at the same time so maybe kids'll join them or still be active members. I think it would be wise for UofT to include some stuff on greek systems or at least the greeeks to advertise themselves because this is a mammoth institution where one can easily get losr and is a largely commuter school. I'm not saying allow them to contact prospective frosh right away but let them know that there is a small and yet not small community (the chapter and then fraternity or chapter and then greek system) that they can be a part of which will make it seem like a smaller school despite the U's massive size and this being the biggest city in the country. Let them put stuff in admissions pacakges.
Put a few things in the acceptance package. Encourage students to come to the university who are community minded because not only will the fraternity be able to foster that, the University will probably take advantage of it every way it can just like it does with its sports teams which receive (in my experience) almost ero support. We ashould be broadening our minds during this crucial phase of life not limiting it because a university does not like the fact the organizations only admit single sexes. Hart house just went co-ed which means i paid more in my tuition and fees than did females so that I could be a member. Is that not the same thing? Is that not also admitting people who are the same sex into an organization?
Besides, being reocgnized (tho not neccessarily supporteed) by the UofT means that it would be that much more of an impetus for members to have a positive impact on the community and the city thus raising reputation, visibility and membership.
The only times I saw them were during frosh week and a few times during the year when I'd see a guy in a fraternity.. other than that i never really saw them at all.
Sometimes being in a single sex environment is very helpful to a person;s growth and development. i myself went to an all male school (wasn't it only in the 1880's or even later like 1930's that UofT went co-ed? ND went coed in 68 i think as well as places like yale and princeton) and i must say i ahd the best time of my life and that includes my stay in rome. i didn't neccesarily like all the guys or all the teachers or some of my experiences but it brought me onto the water and onto the wrestling amt two things for which i am eternally grateful. i liked the fact it was single sex. The atmosphere was more laid back and i felt more comfortable because i wasnt nervous around some chick i liked etc. I would say that to deny GLO's recognition of existence based primarily on whether they are all male or all female seems a little misguided. St Mike's has totally segregated dorms with 2 female buldings and a large amount of all guy rez buildings. Why not make SMC go coed or Trin? It seems ludicrous to me and hurts both the GLOs and the University
UofT and other schools dont neccessarily have to support these organizations but just recognize that they exist and that both the glos and university can peacefully coexist, one working off the strength of the other for the benefit of both parties involved. like it says in my signature the worth of the state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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