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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
I understand what you're saying, but what do yuo think of the African Americans in IFC/NPC dressing up for the White Trash Bash? You keep sayin it's only these two groups of organization holding these, which is prolly true, and maybe it's wrong, but the fraternity that held this party is extremely diverse (white, black, asian, puerto rican, arab, jewish, etc) and many of these members participated in this. I'm in no way sounding bitchy but I'm curious what your opinion of this is?
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I still think it is bad.
All of the participants are still making fun of a certain economic status. And I think that this may be part of the reason for such a negative attitude about greek life on many campuses. I've read posts on here from greeks at schools where the top campus administrators are doing what they can to remove greek life from campus. Maybe this is why. Schools want all students to feel welcome and comfortable. If you have groups of orgs that seem to consistently have parties where they consider a lower economic status a joke, then that does not represent the campus well. Poor representation of a campus may mean that bright-eyed high school seniors are less likely to consider going to that school. Education is a big business and schools don't want to hurt their chances of getting as much money as they can. The more students you have (or can hold) the more money the school gets from local, state and federal governments and tuition.
Just think, if you came from a financially struggling family that was considered 'White Trash' when you were growing up and now you are lucky enough to afford college by having a dozen part-time jobs and while at college you saw all these greeks at a 'White Trash' party, how would you feel about greeks? How would you feel about a school that supports this type of behaivor?