Is the Man holding you down?

[Pike1483]

Greetings fellow Greeks. I started this thread to discuss a problem that many of us have with our schools-- some of them seem to be anti-greek. I'm sure their have been many threads on this subject, but I'd like to discuss it.

My school in general seems to be pretty anti-greek. The school newspaper is written by a bunch of non-greeks who take every opportunity to dis the greeks, but very rarely print anything about all our events and fundraisers and campus involvement and stuff.

This year the school came out with all these crappy rules which I see as just trying to limit the Greek System. For instance, our Greek Advisor would not let the fraternities set up tables on the lawn at school for rush. We have ALWAYS set up tables on the lawn for rush during the first week of school on the day when all the other student organizations set up booths and stuff, but our Greek Advisor said "no" this year, and her reasoning was that "not all of the fraternities can afford to set up a booth, so it wouldn't be fair if some fraternities did it and other's couldn't." This is blatant socialism in my opinion. It's called survival of the fittest, and if the smaller fraternities don't want to put forth the effort to set up a table and have members there to talk to people, then that's probably why they're so small to begin with.

Another crappy rule the school made was "all fraternity parties must shut down at 2 AM." Well, we're all adults, and most of the time the parties don't even get going good until midnight. The school's reasonings for this rule was "every major incident that happened at fraternity houses in the past was after 2 AM." Wow, that's some great reasoning. Now we have a million drunk people taking to the streets all at once in 2 AM.

Anyone else feel like their school sees the Greek System as more of a liability than an asset? Anyone got any suggestions? Anyone out there go to a school with an awesome Greek system and greek advisors and stuff?