I believe this topic has been posted before. I suggest you read other topics and threads to find out. But to answer your question about the Pikes. I attend FSU and yes awhile ago they brutally raped and sodomized a girl here at school. Now when they were making proposal to the school like almost two years ago to get back on campus, I was kinda offended that the university would even allow them to get this far in the process. I mean come on, they did something unthinkable. However being a member of two fraternal organizations, I had to really think about this. To make a long story short, I couldn't condemn an organization based on the actions of a few brothers, or one chapter. Does any negative action hurt the fraternity, Yes! However we must also remember that people are gonna be people regardless of a fraternal affiliation. When we let people in to our orgs., we never know what we're getting. On the surface they might seem mentally stable but one never knows. So yes, they where Pikes that raped her in the Pike house. But still, they were all just sick individuals period. With or without Pike. I'm sure it's not in Pike manuals anywhere to go and rape and sodomize women. If it is, show me. So now they're back on campus, and they have a lot of new members. I know a few from classes I've taken. They are hell bent on changing the image they have around campus. Even though they are some of the smartest and strongest leaders around campus, people still look at them as rapist and they where still in high, middle, and elementary school when this incident happened like 10 or so years ago. I still have mixed opinions, but the guys there now have proven to the campus that they deserve to be there. And I'm pretty sure the Office of Greek Life and the IFC have put lots of restrictions on them for the first few years or so.
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[This message has been edited by NUPE4LIFE (edited August 19, 2000).]
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