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There are articles written like this everyday. We here the same old things. "sorority women and fraternity men are buying there friends." "They must lack the self-esteem to make their own friends." "They're all a bunch of rich, stuck up snobs" "They beat their pledges and humiliate them", blah, blah, blah, and so on and so forth. And when we hear these things are first response is, "oh, she must have been cut from every group. She's just bitter".
These things still happen. That's why all these negative articles are still be written. I'm sure most of us can say. Well that never happened to me, and my chapter doesn't do that. Good. I'm glad to ehar that. But some groups still do those things.
We has greeks have to be the ones to put a stop to this behaviour. Until we can show the non-greek community that we are more than meets the eye, these articles will not stop. We as greeks, must eforce the rules and have "punishments" that fit the "crimes". We have to take responsibilty for the actions of our groups, even if they are not are chapters or organizations. We can't stand up and praise our organization on a whole and say. "Those are my sisters...look how great we are" and then distance ourselves when one chpater does something wrong. "Oh well that's not my chapter, I don't have to worry about that...we don't do that stuff." We cant push this under the rug any longer. We all represent our organizations, no matter what chapter we are in. That means through the good and the bad. So until we start behaving like we would like to be seen by those outside the greek world. We will continue to read articles like this.
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