Another dumb chapter

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by exlurker
Isn't Cornell College affiliated in some way with the Methodist Church? And isn't tuition + room and board there around $27,000 a year? The college might be concerned about negative PR that could impact applications -- unless there are a lot of parents with a desire to shell out private college costs to have their children hazed.

Yes and yes. But I would say the affilliation with the Methodist Church isn't as strong as similar schools in Iowa--Loras in Dubuque (Catholic) or Luther in Decorah (Lutheran). I would consider it a relatively liberal school given its setting.

[concerned451]

Originally posted by ISUKappa
Cornell is a very small private college. The Greek community is old but is not policed at all. The girl I lived with two years ago was in a sorority there in the late 90s and she went on and on about how they hazed and some of the things they made their pledges do. I was in shock just listening to some of the things they did!

exactly one of those sororities i know has a harsh paddling initiation. Illinois is probably worse though since more hazing begins at highschool. this also points to the larger problem of hazing becoming more secretive as those in favor of it realize the need to keep it quiet and out of the headlines. it's not that there's less people who want to haze, but with lawsuits being filed and schools, names, families getting media exposure, it's helped reduce some of it and made the groups that haze more careful about hazing in any way that could be proven. that's why there's so many of these groups who will go on record as being a non hazing org., but in reality, behind the scenes, they work hard to ensure it still goes on, but make activities more innocent sounding. if you call it by something other than hazing, then in their minds, it's not hazing.

[decadence]

Originally posted by: AssNTitties
Why are all 14 chapters punished because of one stupid organization? That doesn't make since to me. And Hoosier, what org. are u in? How do you find all this info?

Hoosier is an alumni of an NPC fraternity (I forget which, and anyway not for me to say). Additionally he is (or at least was for some years) a chapter advisor for that fraternity. His sources are the Fraternal News group - check the first post at the top of this forum the thread which starts "Important: How to access..."
Other news sources for this are Google - which has a 'News' feature and regular search functions.
Websites of campus newspapers often generally also have a story about an issue which you hear a mention of and give a grass roots level perspective on it.
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After posting this I viewed some other posts of the delightfully named "AssNTitties" who discussed how he loved being a member of Kappa Alpha order and how he enjoys incestuous kissing with his (impliedly biological) sister.

'AssNTitties' went on to indicate his pride at how he believed the late 'spiritual founder' of Kappa Alpha Order was in regular verbal contact with him; before rounding off this triumvirate of trolling by asking members of an org, if they had black members and what they therefore thought of the historical roots the group had in the Ole South.

[BaylorBean]

I have to agree that this is a common problem in the private colleges in Illinios/Iowa especially since most of them have local greek systems not national. I grew up right by Augustana College and had many friends who went there. The stories I have heard are just disgusting. Both of my parents went there and were greeks and comparing their stories to my friends, they aren't very different which I find quite frightening. Hopefully this is a sign that will make these Colleges recognize what is really going on.

[greencat]

The school did the right thing. They don't regulate their fraternities, so if one screws up, then they're all suspect for review. It's called risk management.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by decadence
Hoosier is an alumni of an NPC fraternity (I forget which, and anyway not for me to say). Additionally he is (or at least was for some years) a chapter advisor for that fraternity...

Just a side note, what ever org. Hoosier is a part of, I doubt it's an NPC fraternity, being that he is male.

[decadence]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi: Just a side note, what ever org. Hoosier is a part of, I doubt it's an NPC fraternity, being that he is male.

My bad, I meant obviously NIC fraternity. I must have just been tired and not concentrating when I made the original post (I see I made it at nearly 2am).

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by decadence
My bad, I meant obviously NIC fraternity. I must have just been tired and not concentrating when I made the original post (I see I made it at nearly 2am).

It's all good. I mean he could be one of those guys that had a sex change and then we could debate in one the many thread about can he/she pledge a sorority because of the sex change