Of course segregation is not the same as pledging, it is called a parallel. The parallel was in response to a statement by the Iota board member. Some rules are meant to be broken. MIP is a rule that is wrong.
I guess you are the type of person who happily grips up or yo yo's the 100 new kappas made through MIP at some campus. I am sure that is the way the founders of your fraternity wanted things. They wanted one line brother to not know the other. They wanted the line to not know much history of the chapter. They wanted anyone with a couple hundred dollars, decent grades, and some community service to be able to be a member of KAPSI. I am sure that MIP is what the founders wanted when they envisioned KAPSI correct. That is why MIP has been around since 1911 in your fraternity correct. For eighty nine years, people have been able to sign there name spend a weekend and then be a Kappa correct. This is called sarcasm Nupe. If MIP was what the founders wanted, it would have been all we know.
I also know the founders would not have wanted anyone to die or be physical or mentally scarred for life for trying to become a brother. Those instances need to be dealt with on a case by case matter. Here is a parallel Nupe, people get involved in automobile accidents everyday and yet we still drive. As a matter of fact, it is safer to be a pledgee (even an underground pledgee) than it is to drive an automobile. A person is much more likely to be injured or killed while driving than they are while pledging. Should we get rid of cars? Of course not, cars are necessary part of life. Here is another parallel Nupe, they make the people dress the same. They make these students wake up early in the morning to workout. They make these students wear the same clothes for at least 3 hours a day. They make these students do drills where the sole purpose is for them to ram there body into another person. On one day of the week, they make these students perform in front of thousands of people. This abuse last a whole semester (sarcasm). If you have not figured out what I was talking about, it is football. There are thousands of more football injuries every year as compared to pledging injuries. Should we get rid of football all together,or maybe we should let the team who can sing the best song get seven points and whoever comes up with the most best songs wins. Of course, that is ridiculous. These people chose and choose to play a violent game. The administration of the rec councils, high schools, colleges, and professional teams just plan accordingly. Nobody, at least none I have ever seen, is forced to pledge; it is a choice. If they do not want it, the door is always there they can quit at any time.
My belief is that fraternities are suppose to be more selective. You know the old saying many are chosen and few are frozen. I am sure that other NPHC fraternities and sororties have similar sayings. Fraternities are not suppose to be open to everyone. If they were like I said earlier we would not know anything but MIP. The founder's of our organizations did not want this, and since the founders did not want it; it is a rule that should be broken to go back to the orginial parallel.
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