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Originally posted by RACooper
Happens a little more often up here... usually it requires a call or meeting with the parents to lay-out the benifits of a Fraternity as well as countering the negative perceptions they have of a Fraternity. However I have seen it happen three times while a recruitment chair... it is unusual that you couldn't find a way to remove their major objection, but sometimes the parents are just dead-set against their kid joining and they won't listen to anything you say.
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Do these "issues" generally come from students who are first generation university students or from parents who did not attend a school with a Greek system? I'd assume that if the parents went to say, U of T as well, that they might know something about it, especially since more people were Greek in the past (when did the number of Greeks at U of T drop, anyway?). In terms of "ethnic" students who are first generation Canadian, many of their parents don't even know what fraternities and sororities are. At Thanksgiving dinner this year, a man said that his daughter was living off campus and paying $X. I said that the cost sounded similar to living in a sorority house. He then looked at me funny and asked me what sororities are.