Greek Social Life - Then and Now

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Some of your "thens" sound a lot more like MY college experience than your "nows." The nows you are discussing are freaky, and I'm not sure they are the "norm" for Greeks "these days."

I know, it's spooky. Those contrasts came from a 19-year old. She is somewhat disgusted be what she saw in the dorms, but loves college anyway. I am aware of many similar responses from the smaller colleges near my home. The one that completely threw me was when she told me there was a "condom club". I didn't ask her to elaborate

[kathykd2005]

Again, however, I want to reiterate that this is not the norm for college life these days... I'm sure it happens, a lot more than we would like to think, but let's not scare this poor parent into not wanting a child in a Greek organization "these days." That's really not fair to the organizations, at all.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

I know, it's spooky. Those contrasts came from a 19-year old. She is somewhat disgusted be what she saw in the dorms, but loves college anyway. I am aware of many similar responses from the smaller colleges near my home. The one that completely threw me was when she told me there was a "condom club". I didn't ask her to elaborate

I know this is from the first page, and this thread is on page 7 now, but I do have to comment on the "condom club". My alma mater- Ohio University does have a student run "condom club". They are dedicated to 1) teaching people the correct way to use one 2) providing them to students at cost. In order to get them at cost, a student sits through a presentation (it used to be called condomology) that talks about signs and symptoms of STDs. It is sponsored by student health services.

I don't see it has a huge negative, in fact they try and get the word out about being as safe as possible.

[Lucky SC]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

I know this is from the first page, and this thread is on page 7 now, but I do have to comment on the "condom club". My alma mater- Ohio University does have a student run "condom club". They are dedicated to 1) teaching people the correct way to use one 2) providing them to students at cost. In order to get them at cost, a student sits through a presentation (it used to be called condomology) that talks about signs and symptoms of STDs. It is sponsored by student health services.

I don't see it has a huge negative, in fact they try and get the word out about being as safe as possible.

everyone in U101 has to go to a presentation on that at South Carolina. we have the #1 awareness programs from the school and percentages have been going down because of it supposedly.

I don't see whats wrong with getting the people informed either, believe it or not i bet a decent amount of people go into college not knowing how to use a condom