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This is not a matter of 'saying' it's a matter of knowing. I know they get away with things that would get us closed, simply because no one watches them. I know because I have friends in the band, and I go to the parties.
I'll be fair- it's not just them that I have this problem with. There's a vicious double-standard, and it's particularly bothering me today, so I'm griping.
Amherst has a no-keg law- you can't have a keg inside the township without a special permit, and they're insanely hard to get. Now, if a student living off campus gets caught with a keg, Greek or not, they're supposed to be brought up on university disciplinary charges. How often do you suppose the police report GDI parties to the university, as opposed to Greek parties?
On the same theme, we have to keep house grades up, or our underclassmen have to move back into the dorms. Now, if a dorm had a low average gpa, do you think they would discipline the housemaster for it? or move underclassmen into other dorms? I've suggested it, and been told to stop being silly.
My house works hard, keeps good relations with our neighbors, don't haze our pledges- we try so hard to do everything right. Why should we bother if in the end they're going to treat us the same as if we didn't? Honestly, why don't I just move to an apartment complex, throw a kegger every night, and get a 0.8? I might gain a little respect around here.
(In case you hadn't guessed, this has not been a good week around here, and I'm just blowing off steam, so nod sympathetically and move on.)
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