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Originally posted by TriSigmaTX
I watched the show too and though to myself, "man I'm glad I'm not a DKE". I wondered if DKE's headquarters were just fired up and angry about this.....would you want your organization portrayed this way?
Whether it's good or not, doesn't matter, that's terrible PR for every fraternity. What about any DKE's, I'm sure that what we saw on that program is not what the DKE founders intended for their members. I'm sure that the things we saw are not in their ritual books.
Those type of hell weeks, I weeks, whatever you call them are all over the country with many different fraternities. That's not what any of us want to portray fraternities as. I thought that kid looked like an idiot and he sure showed he has no respect for his fraternity. You don't put on a primetime show the stupid things that you do, just becausem and laugh about it and tell everyone how funny you thought it was. I'm sure that Delta Kappa Epsilon did not approve this before it went on air.
Just my thoughts...
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Point well taken, but I do not think this was a "fraternity bashing" documentary. It was about rites of passages and in some GLO's this is still considered to be a rite of passge. TLC gave an account as to what it was. I honestly don't think the intent was to say" hey look at this, this is all that greeks do, yada yada". It was just about Rites of Passges (because it did featured gangs and the military), not Greek Rites of Passages.
And honestly, I would be more concerned with why something like that is still happening today more than anything else (the part with the DKE, because the other part with the guys tossing the pledge into the pool looked like footage from the early eighties).