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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
Why should we help the rights of "first gen" college students? We're not organized to be a group f frist gen students, we're organized to be fraternity brothers.
being first gen or not doesn't really matter if you're being discriminated against, and allowing students to join some groups right away but not others is discrimination.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I don't mean all first generation college students - I mean those who are Greek.
Case in point: at my school several students were punished and threatened with expulsion because of their membership in an off-campus fraternity. My school is not another Columbia, where students could protest all they want and it didn't matter because they would work for Daddy's company once they "got straightened out" - its enrollment has many students who are first gen and who NEED degrees to get jobs. These kids couldn't afford to fight the school - their teaching credentials were on the line. If they DID fight the school - their names would have been mud for any teaching job they applied to. NIC needs to be fighting to make sure situations like this do not happen.
And like LaneSig says: if students at your campus join the newspaper staff, the hall council or the Sci Fi & Fantasy club and think those things are an adequate substitute for Greek life - then your Greek life is shit and you need to fix it internally instead of blaming it on the school.