Visiting Chapters Thread

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by PhiKapSkulls

Yeah, because I care so much about something I typed to 2 minutes in response to insignificant little piss ants like yourself who live in a little, isolated, parochial, self delusional world. You fratty types are not worth the effort of spell check.

Hahahhahahah.

Good cry there champ.

I don't need your charity, if you want to come across like an uneducated dumb......knock yourself out.

[bowsandtoes]

Originally Posted by SECdomination

But ironically enough, worth the effort of responding.

Got em!

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

If you truly find brotherhood in people you have never met, is your brotherhood worth anything anyways?

I'm not saying they're my best friends but we share the same fraternal values and rituals. Why shouldn't there be a bond? If you don't get t then you missed something along the way.

[bowsandtoes]

Originally Posted by PhiKapSkulls

I'm not saying they're my best friends but we share the same fraternal values and rituals. Why shouldn't there be a bond? If you don't get t then you missed something along the way.

Yes there's some type of bond, but not one that I would put much weight on. I played football in high school, does that mean I share a brotherly bond with every high school football player in the country, considering we went through the same drills (rituals?). We're not denying that there's some link made by knowing the same secrets, just that that link isn't what we consider 'brotherhood'. Especially when as I mentioned before, there are people outside the organization that know the secrets, but that doesn't make them brothers. And I'd like to think that brotherhood means something more than a check sent to nationals.

PS- You're not better then everyone else and people make fun of you just like you make fun of the "geldheads". What a tiny little isolated wolrd you live in.

Come back in 10 years and see who's laughing at who.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

I'm glad not everyone is impressed by downright arrogance.

I don't see what the big deal is for a weekend stay unless it's really going to be a problem...like it's too hard to put them up for a few days or they might bring legal troubles.

[gtdxeric]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

I don't see what the big deal is for a weekend stay unless it's really going to be a problem.

A lot can happen in a weekend. One time, guys from a chapter that was visiting mine got in a bar fight at a campus bar... wearing letters. It's worse if there's no bond of friendship between the two chapters and the visiting chapter is in town just to party, and hasn't given the host chapter time to prepare or the option to decline.

With that said, the things discussed in this thread are decisions that only the President of the chapter has to make. For all other members of the chapter, whatever the situation, I'd say to be hospitable and give them whatever benefit of the doubt you think they deserve, but keep your eyes open. If you feel like it, you might direct them toward things you think they would enjoy, but that would keep them relatively out of trouble.

There's actually something in my pledge manual about this, I'll dig it up later.

Originally Posted by bowsandtoes

Come back in 10 years and see who's laughing at who.

They're already laughing (at you).

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by PhiKapSkulls

I'm not saying they're my best friends but we share the same fraternal values and rituals. Why shouldn't there be a bond? If you don't get t then you missed something along the way.

You don't know that. If you claim that every single member of your organization holds your fraternity's values and rituals in the same light as you do...........then you are incredibly, incredibly naive.

Champ, there are member of your fraternity that joined so they could live in a fraternity house, drink, and screw. They don't care about your ritual or the values that your founding fathers preached. They care about learning it so they can get initiated. If you think otherwise, you need to get a clue.

You are so ass deep in trying to make us look like lesser fraternity men than yourself, you don't even realize how ridiculous the things you are saying truly are.


I'm still waiting for you to tell me how I "don't get it."

[FSUZeta]

in my days in the house, we had sister guests from time to time. while we did not have a bad experience with any of the guests, they were in town to visit boyfriends or were passing thru on their way farther south and they treated the house more like just a place to stay. we did not issue them keys, so they had to work around our schedules for coming and going.

my father in law tells of a time in his fraternity house when they had visitors from another chapter staying, and the president of his chapter asked him and other brothers to give up their rooms for the weekend. when my fil returned to his room, he discovered that the visiting brother who had stayed there had helped himself to his clothes and bed linens.

[33girl]

When I was in school we called (I forget which it was) either our chapter at Penn State or the AGD chapter (my roomie's bio sister was an AGD) and wanted to come up and stay with them. They were not jazzed and said no. At the time we thought they were being bitchy, but when I look back we were the ones being jerks - it was on HOMECOMING weekend and they had to have tons of people there (and they don't have a house, just suites).

It's one thing to have 2 girls/guys come to visit, it's quite another to have a dozen plus.