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Old 02-17-2002, 05:11 PM
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I think that a lot of the anti-greek sentiment is like what JAM said about it being a continuation of HS.

I was in the middle of the social pack in HS and I know that occasionally I riduculed those who were extremely "popular" and I more than once overheard those who I would consider lower than me just rip on the in crowd for a variety of reasons. Usually it was about the intellectual qualities of the cool kids (which for most were rather nonexistant but I digress) or the cool kids' chances for success later in life.

For us who were goign to college and we knew that we'd be sucessful in the future, I think there was an ideal that college was going to be a place where our intelligence was goign to finally be appreciated instead of being a ticket to lower social status. College was going to be a place where the cliques were virtually non-existant, where there was no delineation of who was cooler than the others, somplace where you were just friends with who you were friends with...

Then to come to college and find a whole system of people who think they are cooler (and I think that for the most part every GLO member thinks/feels they are better off for going greek - otherwise we wouldn't defend our choice so vehemently). Further the line is well drawn, and it's more noticable as to who is part of this system.

Finally I think what really frustrates independents is that they can't complain about Greeks not being intelligent, not being involved, not going to be sucessful. So they pick on things like "I don't buy my friends" or what not.

Now this obviously doesn't apply to every independent, as I know we all have friends who don't feel this way. I know that all my HS friends kinda just said "Whatevs" to my decision, and I think they understood that going out of state was a part of my decision. Perhaps if I had been going to school with them and joined they might felt different b/c it could be construed as a "i'm leaving you behind" sort of deal.

That's my 2 cents, and I think it makes sense but I could be way off base.
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