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Originally Posted by Kevin
As opposed to the Chicken Little displays we see every time an 18-21 year old kid does something stupid, I prefer my way.
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The problem is that you seem to dismiss every reaction stronger than your own as a Chicken Little response, whether that's a fair characterization or not.
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Originally Posted by andthen
I feel like he is talking out of both sides of his mouth. One one hand he is saying that greek orgs are exclusionary. Yet on the other had he then says that he enjoyed being in a fraternity?
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He said something that caught my eye and that I'm still trying pondering:
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"I was lucky in that the one I was in, we were really kind of the anti-fraternity fraternity."
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I see or hear statements like this fairly often—some variation on "my fraternity wasn't like other fraternities" or "I never thought I'd be in a fraternity, but this chapter was the stereotypical frat." It's almost apologetic: "Don't judge me just because I am/was in a fraternity."
This is the kind of thing where I think public perception is important. How many quality potential members did we fail to recruit because the view they had of a Greek life made them unwilling to really consider it? How do we counter the stereotype of the "standard frat"?
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