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Originally posted by mcellpe
I'll back off for now, but when someone tells me that my fraternity's higher standards are a "garbage phrase" with "no real meaning", those are fighting words to me, and to most of the greeks on this board. Words like that make it sound like we are all members of mindless social clubs. I am not a member of a social club.
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I don't mean the standards themselves that you hold are garbage - I mean the
phrase itself has been so overused and abused that, as I said, every person you asked would give you a different answer as to what it means. (Some other words that are getting there are "family friendly" and "patriotism.") My point is - say what you mean. If you mean you ask men to have a higher GPA than the rest of the campus, say so. If you mean you require them to do community service when the majority of students do not, say so. Ambiguity does us no good - you can deny someone whose hair falls the wrong way a bid and say "well, they didn't live up to our higher standards."
Administrators and prospective members don't want to hear that we have "higher standards." They want to hear what those standards ARE. That's all I meant, sorry that you misinterpreted it.
I don't say you're "condescending" because you're talking about it - but to say "let's squeeze education in between keggers" - come on. If your campus experience was that all other chapters did was drink, I feel bad for you, but that certainly wasn't mine. To imply everyone who isn't dry is drinking 24/7 - sorry, that is condescension no matter how you look at it. I'll back off too, but just think about how you sound when you say things like that.