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good words, all
Yes, Tom, especially your comment about us being our own worst enemy. One campus chapter spent virtually all of their first semester budget on booze and food for rush. They opened
their house to all. The freeloaders came in, drank the booze, ate the food and continued to badmouth the greeks afterwards.
If brother greeks are our enemies, then who are these "takers", those jerks who constantly belittle the greeks...some of these, by the way, wear sweatshirts with GDI on them...do they crave identification or what? It is really silly for us to fight amongst ourselves, look foolish, when we all offer like experiences.
A reply, perhaps tongue in cheek, saying why don't we adopt the
quota system...if the girls are so large and successful.
Good point on the surface, but when you cannot even get enough men to sign up for rush what the heck good are quotas?
At the U where only 200 men sign up for rush for 29 houses but
over 2,000 girls for 13 sororities...how can one make a comparison? Quota, schmota...
There is, good people, simply a differing in sexes...sorry, unisex
and co-ed chapter freaks...you are dead wrong. Vive la diference!
BUT, as in sales, out of sight, out of mind...OR, put a brick on your desk with a sign "This brick will sit here all day and neither
rush or pledge a man."
We must work on it 'til we get it right.
While Wilson B. Heller, Pike, may have over-killed size and may have come across as grumpy, he did love us all...he really did.
Did you know he was a WWI aviator and ace? He was modest.
As regards quality vs. quantity...I never espoused getting wimps
in a chapter simply to enhance numbers. This is a given, and I'd
hope you all are smart enough to know that! Keep talkin, troops!
The Fraternity experience is well worth saving. Cheers! Uncle Erik, old Kansas TKE alum now in Colorado
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