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The Mecha at SDSU is despised by most of the rest of the student body. They were the ones who spearheaded that campaign along with the Native American Student Association to remove our mascot Monte Montezuma, which I considered a symbol of fierce pride among all the SDSU students. "Culturally Insensitive" or not, SDSU undergrads and alum are proud to be Aztecs, and we all show that pride whenever we SEE that mascot (which exists unofficially" It's really sad that 90% of students VOTED to keep the mascot, and yet our president chose to remove him.
Mecha here basically tries to cause controversey any way they can. They led the protest against war against Iraq. Their response to President Bush's claim that "You're either with us or against us" was "You cannot speak for an entire nation of free thinking people." Well, they can't speak for a whole student body who obviously love their mascot, but they did anyway.
Their leader is Ron Gochez, a complete liberal who , in a letter to the editor, claimed that the "Jewish owned media" was messing up our image of society, or something to that effect.
I'm not going to apply this negative view of Mecha to every campus, because the Mecha at my high school was AWESOME. They did so much to promote their culture in a positive way without offending others, and did great work within the community. The one at SDSU, however, is a joke.
Anyway, to the point about Latino greeks, the two Latino fraternities and two sororities at SDSU have made some great strides in recent years, and are the most populated, with the fraternities being two of the three cultural GLOs with a chapter house. They do work within not ONLY the Latino community but throughout San Diego in general, and they do their best to promote a sense of pride amongst their GLOs and as a culture as well.
I really admire what they've accomplished, and for one of their own to bash them just because of the letters across their chests is completely ridiculous. They are proud of who they are because they promote a positive image of not only Hispanic life, but Greek life.
So, props to:
Nu Alpha Kappa
Gamma Zeta Alpha
Lambda Sigma Gamma
Alpha Pi Sigma
and every other LGLO I've heard of that promote unity and pride as Hispanics AND Greeks in a positive way.
Sorry for the vent.
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