Greeks Only Parties

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Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

Is it just me or are parties with only Greeks allowed in much easier to manage?

You are exactly right. Back in my day we had lists and security at the door and random people were not invited. Non-Greeks were not really invited either- but more because the party was for chapter members, so other male Greeks were few in number as well and had to be good friends with someone etc.

Non-Greek students are just as likely to get wasted and do stupid stuff as anyone else.

But the difference at a party hosted by a fraternity is that the members, or other Greeks, have a certain amount of respect (generally speaking) for the house and its contents because they live there or live in a similar home.

Non-Greeks have no such ownership in respecting the house they visit other than whatever personal manners they have- and so those who are not well mannered have every reason to get drunk and tear stuff up because what do they care?!

This is all very general of course- there are plenty of Greeks out there who have no respect for their houses and plenty of non-Greeks who do have respect for their hosts.

But on average I think my analysis is spot on.

To give a good example of this in another context- when I was in high school I worked at a luxury car dealership for a couple of summers that offered free loaner cars when people brought their cars in for service and also washed customer cars after they were serviced. Working both the service drive and helping in the car wash- I got a pretty good look at both loaner cars and customer cars all day long.

On average, the loaner cars got pretty well trashed compared to the condition customers kept their own cars in. Not always- but on average.

Same thing here. A lot of people in this world have little regard for things for which they are not directly responsible.