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Originally posted by 33girl
When parents of rushees were anti Greek I usually asked:
1) Is your dad in the Masons? Is mom in Eastern Star?
2) Do they belong to a country club?
3) How much do they spend on (insert hobby here)?
This usually shuts the parents up.
A lot of parents that grew up in the 1960's & 1970's just had the anti-Greek rhetoric jammed down their throats along with some of the other questionable wisdom of that age (est, anyone?) and don't know any better.
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So many parents equate Greeks with hazing and hazing with drinking and/or deaths - and unfortunately, many chapters don't help change that image. I'd rather explain to a parent that hazing is a very rare event than tell them that their child died as a result of it.
And before you start screaming, "Anti-fun! Anti-fun!", I'm talking about those who are drinking irresponsibly, and are engaging in hazing - not those who are having fun while in school.