Greek Discrimination....

[scoobis]

I'm a newly iniated member and even in the few months I've been active I've noticed that being greek can suck sometimes, I've had a few situations where I feel that I've been discriminated against because of sterotypes I can just list a few instances..

I was going around to local businesses in our town to get donations for our annual philanthropy event and I went into a local cigar shop who someone suggested helps with charity and I walk into the store dressed professionally with a sweater, collared shirt, clean cut, kakis etc. (somthing I might wear to an interview) and i introduce myself and say i'm with Alpha Tau Omega his first words were, "i'm sorry?" so i repeat myself and he says, "no i'm sorry to hear you're in a fraternity." i didn't end up recieving a donation from this owner because he said he didn't want his business associated with under-age drinking...YOU SELL CANCER!!! I'M HELPING HOMELESS PEOPLE!!! I was pretty pissed at that so I thanked him for his time and politely said, "Don't believe all the things you hear about fraternities some of us try and make a positive impact on the community." Also when I tried to reserve space for our event I was frustrated by the lack of attention they were giving me and at one point the secretary told me, "We have real charities to deal with." It was really REALLY hard not to freak out at this girl who was busy texting/helping me.

I was in class wearing my letters and I asked what seemed to be an intelligent question because i got stares from everyone in the classroom like they thought all frat boys had brain damage from crush beer cans to the scull. Even the prof seemed suprised when i spoke up. But in their defense there was a guy sitting next to me from another house passed out from the night before.

And that was just this week.

at a school with 3% greek population it's hard getting respect. do you guys have any experiences like this?