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- From: gatchall@rtsg.mot.com (Scott W. Gatchall)
- Subject: Re: Fraternal Reality From a Greek
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.150031.21368@rtsg.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.150004.36@newton.hartwick.edu> <1992Nov18.001845.11979@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:00:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.001845.11979@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.150004.36@newton.hartwick.edu> buccim@newton.hartwick.edu writes:
- >>Well, Well. (etc.)
- >
- >I'm curious why it is every pro-frat argument trots out the same tired old
- >storyline ("you're just not in a frat", "we do a lot of philanthropy",
- >"we've been around since 1776", "everybody joins a frat", "we never haze",
- >"anybody who doesn't like frats watches too much Animal House") often
- >with the exact same wording. It's just plain eerie. I've seen almost
- >this exact same post in campus newspapers on two different coasts, and
- >this is the third or fourth time I've seen it on the net. Is it part
- >of the standard brainwas^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpledging process?
-
-
- Gee ... might this be a good indication that these 'pro-frat' arguments
- are indeed true? hmm ... interesting question, isn't it Ted?
-
- >It's a remarkable effort at misdirection and mischaracterization. Yeah,
- >fraternities do a lot of good. But they also do a lot of bad.
-
- Damn .. sounds like the government too. Haven't heard you bitch once
- about that. Maybe this could be a new thread, eh?
-
- >And the
- >bad they do can be easily alleviated by going co-ed and eliminating the
- >pledging process without at all interfering with the good that fraternities
- >do.
-
-
- If you have been paying attention, you'd have heard that a number of
- fraternities are co-ed and a number of fraternities have abolished
- pledging ... but I'm sure that once this is fully implemented by all
- that you'll find another of your 'flaws'.
-
- Bottom line: You weren't (probably) invited into a fraternity or
- (probably) booted from one and carry a grudge. It's written on the wall.
- I feel sorry for your inability to live and let live.
-
- ACtually, if I remember right .... you started one of these debates
- a year or two ago about some bad experience with someone in your family
- and a fraternity (might have been mine). So ... I guess you're gonna
- just keep dragging this outta the closet until you go to your grave.
- Get on with your life, man.
-
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