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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
I will flat out tell you I think it's a bad rule. I'll tell Martha Brown, Betty Quick, Julie Burkhard, Linda Collier, and Patty Disque I think it's a bad rule too. I've elaborated on why in several other threads.
I don't like the fact that they say we can't be loyal for life to two organizations - what about everybody who's in a social GLO, a service GLO, a business GLO, a church, Knights of Columbus, the VFW, the Lions Club, etc?
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Ditto. I talked about transfers and why I think they should be allowed to re-join a different group at their new school (provided their old group isn't there) in another thread, but we hardly touched on people double-initiating at the same campus and I don't think it's necessarily as terrible as people have said. We like to think that all Greeks are as great as us but that is clearly not the case -- and a lot of things are hidden, especially in sororities, until after initiation. There have been girls who have joined a house only to find out that half the members have a coke problem that is bringing the whole house down. There have been guys who joined a house and had one of their brothers rape one of their female friends. There have been a lot of cases where people were betrayed by people who were supposed to be their sisters and brothers.
And honestly? I think it is absolutely fantastic that there are people who have such open minds that they are willing to try Greek life again, that they are willing to say, "Okay, that was horrible but not all Greeks are like this." Because nobody would blame them for buying into Greek "stereotypes" if they're proven true to them. But there are people out there who have been screwed over and they still believe in true brotherhood/sisterhood and I think it's ridiculous to deprive them of that. Isn't that exactly the kind of person we want in our organizations?
In thirty years, do we want these people saying to their kids, "Yeah, I was in a fraternity in college and all we did was party and I ended up getting into some bad isht because of it and almost dropping out of school before I ended up dropping the fraternity instead. I don't want that to happen to you"? Or do we want them saying, "I was in one fraternity in college that was a really bad experience, but I ended up joining a different one where the guys were all really great and supportive and I'm still friends with a lot of them today and they came to my dad's funeral when he died, and I would give anything for you to have that same experience"?
Personally I think Greek life is a contract, and if an organization doesn't give you what they promised -- in this case brotherhood or sisterhood -- then you should be able to drop without getting punished. It's not your fault. Of course there should be rules, or there will be lots of cases like AXJules mentioned where people just drop out because they want to join another house for no good reason. But I think that there enough times where people drop for decent reasons that this rule should be at least reconsidered.