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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Fraternal "Bashing"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.160021.15737@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov15.185318.34@newton.hartwick.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:00:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.185318.34@newton.hartwick.edu> buccim@newton.hartwick.edu writes:
- >Attention on all net users, I am wondering what in God's name prompted this
- >debate on Fraternalism. Why all the Greek bashing? I have a nagging suspicion
- >that someone did not get a bid to pledge and thus decided to bash the Greek
- >system, displacing his rejection.
-
- Au contraire. I intentionally chose an undergraduate that (ostensibly)
- abolished fraternities, so I wouldn't have to deal with them.
-
- Sorry if I'm not being "F.C." (fraternally correct) by pointing out all the
- problems with fraternities. But objective criticism backed by facts is not
- "bashing."
-
- You, on the other hand, seem to have the reverse problem, by assuming that
- only "people who did not get a bid to pledge" would dare to criticize the
- fraternity system. (I guess that's a good way to rationalize why women
- criticize the frats.) I'm confused why it is that some frat folks feel quite
- confident in generalizing about those who criticize frats. Maybe it's
- just that I've had friends raped by fraternities. Maybe I'm just disgusted
- by the sexism promoted by all-male fraternities. Maybe I'm dismayed
- by what fraternities did to my alma mater. Maybe I'm Greek-American, and
- don't like having my nationality slandered by being associated with
- fraternities. Maybe it's that, as a member of society, I *care* what
- sorts of institutions end up shaping the leaders of the future.
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