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"Of course, it's those DAMNED GREEKS causin' a commotion again. All they do is drink & pee & fornicate on our lawns...sometimes at the same time! Serves 'em right."
The sad thing is, there are probably people that hear about this incident on the radio, see it on CNN or read about it in the paper and have this exact thought pattern. Many of these same folks were delighted to see Robert Kennedy get killed because he was "a radical".
"What was that punk doing out so late at night? If he was normal people, he'd be in bed by 10PM."
For all we know, this gentleman was coming home from work because he's taking a 16-hour load and working a 40-hour week to be able to afford being in college in the first place. It sounds like a wrong place/wrong time scenario.
Nobody can dispute this is a sad incident...I'm praying for him. However, because of the location of this incident, the public automatically associates "frats & sororities" with less-than-reputable events. If this had happened in front of a dormitory to a non-Greek, it'd make the news for a day or two and disappear.
Let's all pray for this man and for the perpetrators. We should also "live our rituals" so that we can look the naysayers straight in the eye and tell them that we're trying to live to a higher standard.
Interfraternally,
BF
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Bill Foltz, B-O 130
Illinois State '77
"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."
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