Ok, here's the deal...
My spring break was good. I got some good advice from all of you (Thanks) and from some of my friends back home. I had decided to stay with KA and see what happens. I figured that if I still felt the same way in my gut after a little bit longer then I would quit. Then the night before I left to come back to school I found an old post from January in the Greek Life area titled "Kappa Alpha Order." Reading it gave me some shocking information.... I had no clue that people thought of KA as a raciest fraternity. I know that it is only at some of the schools, but it is very disturbing. The KA chapter at my school is nothing like this, therefore I chose to ignore it. Then on my flight back to school I noticed some old man look at my pledge pin, then look away.... Regardless of what he was thinking, it got me to thinking. By wearing a KA pin, and in the future letters, I would not only be representing the KA chapter at my school, but the KA organization as a whole. I do not want to represent a raciest fraternity in any way shape or form. I intend to put being in a fraternity on scholarship applications, and job applications in the future. I don't want someone to see KA on there who knows of the "problem KA's." At that point I knew that I needed to quit. I gave my pin back on Monday. I was sad at first-I was no longer in the Greek system. But I felt that the internal conflict and stress over what I should do was over. No regrets this time. I have decided to lay low and take the rest of the semester as it comes. In the fall I'll go through again, and maybe the next time I log on here I will be a Phi Psi!!!
Thanks everyone, it's been real!
Josh
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