Parents are Anti-Greek

[honeychile]

Originally posted by 33girl
When parents of rushees were anti Greek I usually asked:

1) Is your dad in the Masons? Is mom in Eastern Star?
2) Do they belong to a country club?
3) How much do they spend on (insert hobby here)?

This usually shuts the parents up.

A lot of parents that grew up in the 1960's & 1970's just had the anti-Greek rhetoric jammed down their throats along with some of the other questionable wisdom of that age (est, anyone?) and don't know any better.

cosign.

So many parents equate Greeks with hazing and hazing with drinking and/or deaths - and unfortunately, many chapters don't help change that image. I'd rather explain to a parent that hazing is a very rare event than tell them that their child died as a result of it.

And before you start screaming, "Anti-fun! Anti-fun!", I'm talking about those who are drinking irresponsibly, and are engaging in hazing - not those who are having fun while in school.