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Originally posted by vinz
- what is exactly anti-intellectualism (even in the European sense I can’t get a straight idea…)? the dominant American upper middle class does not like intellectuals? Plus I kind of understood that some fraternities recruited partly on marks…
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Fraternities & sororities are for everyone not just upper middle class people. Many Greeks are working multiple jobs and have student loans just to stay in school $$wise.
What Firehouse is saying is basically that some of the values and ideas espoused by professors and administrators here are not realistic or workable outside anyplace but an academic institution where there are people ridiculous enough to put up with them. Fraternities are one of the few institutions that will actually say the emporer has no clothes in this instance.
The ones that recruit on marks are known as honorary fraternities. You have to have a minimum grade point average to join and for the most part, they are just a resume/CV builder as opposed to the social fraternities.
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