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Old 03-18-2008, 06:49 PM
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Besides, anyone who reads the Texan carefully will notice it's taken a serious turn to the political right in the last year and a half.
While a good thing, what does that have anything to do with it not liking the fraternity system?
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Old 03-18-2008, 07:03 PM
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While a good thing, what does that have anything to do with it not liking the fraternity system?
I won't comment on whether it's a good thing, but I think it's a related issue to Greek Life insofar as the NIC fraternity members at Texas on the whole tend to be conservative, and in particular the ones who post on GC tend to be very conservative. Let's face it, fraternities at UT and other southern/SEC schools, or schools like my alma mater, tend to be pretty extremely conservative and also promoters of the status quo. I'm not saying that there are more fraternity members writing for the daily Texan this year or anything. I have no idea of that. I just think that A) given the Texan's increased conservatism, conservative fraternity members would look more favorably on it, and B) a more conservative Daily Texan might tend to be more favorable to Greeks. The latter is really a hunch though.

The biggest issue is I've been reading the Texan nearly daily for 3 years now and I don't see this supposed hatred of Greek Life espoused on its pages.

I do get that Daily Texan staffers tend to be "intellectuals," regardless of their political positions. Maybe that's what pisses off fraternity members.

Ever since the "Whorification of Women" article, I've taken the Daily Texan much less seriously. Serious business, it is not.
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