Odd experience...

Colonist · #1 01-10-2004, 12:11 AM

I had an odd experience recently, first let me explain At my school XYZ is a joke they have like 13 guys and all are hardcore geeks and nerds, they are pretty much the joke of the campus. However, after going to UofMD with a few buddies to party we met the XYZ bros there and they are mad chill... so I guess this goes to show that you really can't judge a whole fraternity by a single chapter.

WhiteDaisy128 · #2 01-10-2004, 12:26 AM

I don't want this to sound mean...but...duh.

PhiPsiRuss · #3 01-10-2004, 12:30 AM

Why the need to publicly badmouth a fraternity chapter?

Senusret I · #4 01-10-2004, 01:00 AM

That wasn't very nice, Colonist.

aopinthesky · #5 01-10-2004, 01:05 AM

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Originally posted by Colonist
... so I guess this goes to show that you really can't judge a whole fraternity by a single chapter.

I guess you can't judge a whole fraternity by one small-minded, rude member as well.

Colonist · #6 01-10-2004, 01:12 AM

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Originally posted by aopinthesky
I guess you can't judge a whole fraternity by one small-minded, rude member as well.

Its rude to state fact? I frankly don't see how its rude to point out differences, some may disagree with the way I posted this and perhaps it wasn't thought out as well as it could have been but it is in no way malacious. Notice how I did not mention the location of the bad chapter? If I wanted to be a jerk I would, but that is not my intent in anyway.

As for calling me small-minded...how do you figure?

Colonist · #7 01-10-2004, 01:15 AM

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Originally posted by WhiteDaisy128
I don't want this to sound mean...but...duh.

I had prior to this had the experience that most chapters were quite similar no matter where you are, I realized there were some exceptions but hadn't seen them first hand. For instance in my hometown SigEp is huge and its huge at my current school. So, my apologies for any misunderstandings.

Kevin · #8 01-10-2004, 01:15 AM

I'm not too thrilled that you pointed out the chapter. Hell.. those guys have to rush also. Rushees may view this site. There are folks that belong there just like anywhere else. Yeah, there are always guys that don't really "fit in" at national conventions though. They're still our bro's and are treated no differently.

I'd request that you change the name of the fraternity indicated above to something like XYZ.

But yeah, I've seen it happen.

Colonist · #9 01-10-2004, 01:25 AM

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Originally posted by ktsnake

I'd request that you change the name of the fraternity indicated above to something like XYZ.

But yeah, I've seen it happen.

Done, sorry to anyone who misunderstood the point of this thread

Kevin · #10 01-10-2004, 01:30 AM

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Originally posted by Colonist
Done, sorry to anyone who misunderstood the point of this thread

Appreciate it

Your statement though is dead on.

Chapters of the same organization differ greatly from campus to campus.

Colonist · #11 01-10-2004, 01:33 AM

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Originally posted by pixell
...hell we're all in college, most people we went to high school with would view that as 'nerdy'

One question...where in the heck did you go to high school!? My whole graduating class with the exception of like 2 or 3 kids went onto 4 year colleges...

KillarneyRose · #12 01-10-2004, 01:48 AM

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Originally posted by Colonist
My whole graduating class with the exception of like 2 or 3 kids went onto 4 year colleges...

That's pretty unusual; at least in public schools. Did you go to a private high school?

Colonist · #13 01-10-2004, 01:50 AM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
That's pretty unusual; at least in public schools. Did you go to a private high school?

Yeah private catholic school, but even my buddies at the local public schools (granted we are in a nice suburb) for the most part went to state schools UW, UM, etc.

absolutuscchick · #14 01-10-2004, 03:17 AM

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Originally posted by Colonist
One question...where in the heck did you go to high school!? My whole graduating class with the exception of like 2 or 3 kids went onto 4 year colleges...

Most people that graduated from my (public) high school went off to college....but not neccessarily a four year.

Colonist · #15 01-10-2004, 03:40 AM

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Originally posted by absolutuscchick
Most people that graduated from my (public) high school went off to college....but not neccessarily a four year.

Yeah I kind of have blinders on about some things, I was in private school my whole life so never had to deal with a lot of the public school stuff.