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First time to see this. Very interesting and informative. As much as I hope my son will go Greek, I must say I do have some worries.
Consider the present public image of fraternities (for hazing is the only fraternity activity which has easy nation-wide publicity), and what a horribly negative, unattractive thing it is. We are associated with primitive barbarity, savagery, torture. We are considered a symbol of immaturity and uselessness, an association of students who refuse to grow up and accept responsibility. We are regarded as a dangerous, violent organization by most parents, hypocritically saying we have abolished hazing while every year we kill some of their children by illegal, and hence criminal, random activity.
Fraternities MUST have the support of PNM's parents. We are given two choices, either we must believe that the chapters our children are considering do not participate in dangerous activities OR, we must trust that our children will not allow themselves to be "damaged".
James, I recall something you said. You believed that by the time the dangerous activities begin to escalate, the pledge" was so involved with the GLO, it would be nearly impossible to walk away.
I wish I could recall the exact way you said it, but it does haunt me. I could never fogive myself if I promoted something that in the end would/could kill my own child.
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