Hi USFstudent,
I perfectly follow you on what you said, esp. in that second statement. And, sure, I know that you don't get drunk when drinking Coke - I was just trying to make a point that not only you guys in America suffer from, but we here in Europe, too: Increasing PC. We are also blamed for drinking too heavily even though non greeks get drunk equally or more. The question is can we do something about it by always giving in to PC pressure or do we have to fight it at some point because it get's too ridiculous.
To answer your question, and maybe it is interesting for you to get the viewpoint from a bystander following this board:
I don't think that knowing about drinking in fraternities or sororities influences people more negatively than the sometimes overt superficial way of judging people, esp. on the basis of clothing, beauty and so on that is apparent on this board (cf: "look" in the forum "rush"). That could leave a lot of people with the bad aftertaste: "ok, the chapter AYZ is not drinking and so on, but they are extremely arrogant and superficial". I don't think that is much better than the image of a drunken bunch.
[This message has been edited by matthewg (edited January 29, 2001).]
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