[FuzzieAlum]

It's true, there are all these fraternity stereotypes, and the worst thing is, people viewed exceptions as proving the rule. Like on my campus, the Phi Delts were the football players, the Fijis were partiers, and the Theta Chis were the computer nerds. Now people used the first two chapters (both composed of nice guys by the way!) to "prove" that all frat boys, so to speak, were drunken jocks. And the Theta Chis, you know, they're just not a "real" fraternity. Or you'd get (from girls you wanted to rush), "Sure, I like all of you, but I don't like what sororities are REALLY like, so I don't want to join."

It was like every bad thing (or thing that was stereotypical even if not bad) was "proof" that Greeks were bad/snobby/drunk, and anything to the contrary was an "exception." It didn't matter how many exceptions piled up, it was always that, well, chapter X is different, person Y is different, or our campus is different - but that all the rest of the Greeks out there must conform to my preset ideas!