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Originally Posted by dnall
It's a completely normal fraternity with ragin parties, serious risk mgmt concerns, etc. It's not church deacons. We're all comfortable with the juxtaposition of the two by now.
I would say their founding was short sighted. They have lost their purpose & therefore should dissolve or remake themselves with a new change the world purpose. Otherwise it's sitting in a car that's out of gas blasting the radio and pressing on the pedals thinking you're getting to your destination. I'd rather see them out of the way so those members will go to orgs that do actively have a serious change the world mission to accomplish.
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Exactly. According to its website, ATO had a "whites only" clause until the 60s.
Guess the ATO founders were short-sighted, as well.
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I have a hard time with this.
"Well we discriminated and excluded you because of your race/religion/ethnicity/not being like us but since we have stopped doing that as an organization (individuals may still follow/believe those policies) and you can come join us, shut down since your only purpose was having a group because you couldn't be in ours."
I won't disagree that your history degree is worthless if you think people should give up their history to get out of the way for the descendants of those who kept them excluded in the first place. I may go to a crappy west coast Pacific school with weak Greek Life, but thankfully my History degree is far more valuable to me than yours is to you. Weak defined as homes on the Register of Historic Places, men's and women's groups on campus for over 100 years, a campus designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted, and 10 miles away there's a similar weak situation at Wazzu. I am sure the professors at your directional Texas school, which is not in the SEC you idolize, were highly competent and capable, you just didn't learn anything about the history of others and how it is your history as well.
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