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This is what I'm planning to send into the newspaper - there may be a couple of edits, but this is the general idea.
What I've seen in the past couple of weeks is more letters about Greek Life than in my past four years at this school, combined. However, I'm dismayed at the hatred some of my fellow students have shown towards an area of Boston University that they know little of.
Making generalizations about Greek Life based on a small number of experiences is just not fair. To say that sororites have earned their stereotype based on a pair of experience ignores the fact that many sorority women are working their way through college, succeeding in academics, and are volunteering for the university and community. In fact, it was a COM student advisor, a sorority member, who was one of the first people to convince me to rush a fraternity. The comments about the Day of Service ignore the fact that there were non-Greeks who did not clean up their trash, and there were non-Greeks who were disrespectful of the speakers that morning as well.
To accuse us of living up to negative sterotypes is to misunderstand who we are. There are school and national regulations that we must follow to be recognized by the school, as well as keep our charters. The fraternities and sororities recognized by Boston University not only follow these regulations, but we give back to the university as a whole, helping with community service, serving as Dean's Hosts and student advisors, and participating in other student organizations around campus.
If you would like to fall back on stereotypes to criticize Greek Life, then I don't know what to tell you. However, if you want to know what Greek Life is REALLY all about, I would say take the time to talk to Seth Rosenzweig, our Greek Advisor, or any of the hundreds of students who are in fraternities and sororities.
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