[Erik P Conard]

Bigger chapters can have houses and buy toys. Toys are fun.
Everybody likes toys. But how many toys?
Some of you are correct, I have never been in a sorority and it
is now a different world than of the 60 member chapters on a
5,000 student campus. And there are a helleva lot of kids who
do not even belong in college. They cannot read, write, or reason. Very few F's are given; political correctness prevails. Take
a look at the g.p.a. today...considerably higher than in the past,
but the performance certainly not. Why are the greeks often below the all student g.p.a.? I have read very few posts discussing scholarship, but that's not my point here. I have lived a long time and have been out in the 'real' world considerably
longer. I'm likely more educated and of course if this is a threat, considered rude, condescending, what have you--I can live with that, and yet continue to be pro-greek. Some of you need to be
sent to your room, replete with TV and boom boxes.
But I stand my ground...the two hundred member sorority is a
far cry from the fun times we had with the Chi Os and Tri Sigmas
of near equal size. Promoting absenteeism at exchanges is simply a cop-out. Is that hard to grasp? Perhaps we ought to confer the PhD at birth, then we could get on with living.
Yes, some chapters are on campuses hardly recognizable today
from those of yore. And not all have 250 girls or 150 boys....
You have not lived long enough nor have learned enough to be
the all-knowing you seem, and if I offend you, take heed, maybe
do a little introspection. You have hardly made a good name
for yourselves with todays behaviour....get real. The apologies
we make for you are many, and we would dearly like you to get
on the road to something more laudable. And while I may isolate
some of you, some I do not. Perhaps the truth is somewhere in
between.