Is the Man holding you down?

[Pike1483]

Greetings fellow Greeks. I started this thread to discuss a problem that many of us have with our schools-- some of them seem to be anti-greek. I'm sure their have been many threads on this subject, but I'd like to discuss it.

My school in general seems to be pretty anti-greek. The school newspaper is written by a bunch of non-greeks who take every opportunity to dis the greeks, but very rarely print anything about all our events and fundraisers and campus involvement and stuff.

This year the school came out with all these crappy rules which I see as just trying to limit the Greek System. For instance, our Greek Advisor would not let the fraternities set up tables on the lawn at school for rush. We have ALWAYS set up tables on the lawn for rush during the first week of school on the day when all the other student organizations set up booths and stuff, but our Greek Advisor said "no" this year, and her reasoning was that "not all of the fraternities can afford to set up a booth, so it wouldn't be fair if some fraternities did it and other's couldn't." This is blatant socialism in my opinion. It's called survival of the fittest, and if the smaller fraternities don't want to put forth the effort to set up a table and have members there to talk to people, then that's probably why they're so small to begin with.

Another crappy rule the school made was "all fraternity parties must shut down at 2 AM." Well, we're all adults, and most of the time the parties don't even get going good until midnight. The school's reasonings for this rule was "every major incident that happened at fraternity houses in the past was after 2 AM." Wow, that's some great reasoning. Now we have a million drunk people taking to the streets all at once in 2 AM.

Anyone else feel like their school sees the Greek System as more of a liability than an asset? Anyone got any suggestions? Anyone out there go to a school with an awesome Greek system and greek advisors and stuff?

[Firehouse]

Sounds like another power-mad, self-impressed mid-level bureaucrat. Get a lawyer to represent the system. One short meeting should solve the problem.

[PhoenixAzul]

as an editor on the school newspaper (however our editorial board is almost ENTIRELY greek)...most school newspapers have an open -door policy...if you want to submit a letter/article, then by all means. If you want your event covered, you have to email the editor about when it is happening, and they will determine if it is newsworthy (this is something for your PR chair).

[Coramoor]

I totally agree.

I think it's funny that when ever my school wants to raise money for a charity or if they want high attendance at some event or speech, they turn to us and basically make us go (especially sororities), but when it comes down to all the other stuff we do for the school we get no praise.

We could cure cancer while saving babies and the elderly from a fire in a skyscraper....but they would totally ignore that and print something about how some feminist group is pissed off at the 'macho' mentality present in frats.

[Kevin]

I guess our campus is almost the opposite. The administration has been doing everything in their power to give us opportunities to grow. We have free reign over campus facilities and are pretty respected on campus by most. There will always be "haters", but public opinion, I think, is positive.

[sigtau305]

So far, the Administration has been pretty fair to us.

[MrTrojanMan]

i used to go to UC irvine in cali. brother, let me tell you, the greeks get bashed there like no other. and they are the only source for school spirit and social activity. this yr. they werent allowed to have any rush parties, which is rough b/c the only good parties wer the rush pparties.

i transfered to USC, and the difference is like night and day. greeks are well represented and well respected on campus. they are appreciated as true orginizations with positive goals. rather than a group of idiots finding any reason to party and pound keg.

your not alone.