For those who attended college....

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Ubiq, Jan 14, 2011.

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  1. A.D.

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  2. GoT

    GoT Strength and Honor

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  3. Fry

    Fry Welcome to the land of tomorrow!

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  4. Chapparal97

    Chapparal97 Grumpy Old Fart

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    Lambda Chi Alpha here
     
  5. Broken Record

    Broken Record Biscuit Eater Staff

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    I went to UTK, didn't join a frat. The only frat folks I hang out with much are the Nupes from Southern University.
     
  6. World Peace

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    Ubiq might be able to speak to this but one of the reasons I didn't rush is because I didn't want to be affiliated with an organization that had some pretty terrible things being said about it. Things may be different now, but at my school, there were some stories being reported about the activities and I just didn't want my name to be apart of that.

    I think if I had went to a different school, I would have considered it but being a hometown kid going to school in my hometown, people knew who i was and I didn't want to be implicated with any of the shenanigans that were going on with those guys. For example, there was an arson investigation going on with one house, some major sexual misconduct allegations with another house, and a hazing incident involving a goat at another house. (I wish I was making all of this up)

    Obviously, when you get 20,000-50,000 people together on a campus, crime is going to happen. Its inevitable But it seemed prevalent that big nasty crimes were becoming commonspeak among what people were reading about in the papers and talking about amongst themselves in regards to the Greeks at my school.

    I hope its all changed now that I've moved on with my life but I've always wondered if this was unique to my school or a problem that effects a lot of campuses around the nation as chronically as it did in my school days.
     
  7. Ubiq

    Ubiq BAMF

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    Oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. But the days of major hazing have mostly gone away -- fraternity headquarters and universities have really started to crack down on it after the string of deaths earlier in the decade from excessive drinking that was forced on a pledge. I know it still goes on heavily in the big time SEC schools though....some of those kids are literally put through hell for a semester.

    As far as the stuff that went down at WKU, I know for a fact that the SAEs burnt down their own rundown house in an attempt to get a new one built (it worked & their new house is legit, btw). The AGRs blindfolded their pledges and made them believe that they (pledges) were about to bang a goat...no one actually did nor were they ever going to. They were kicked off campus for 3 years as a result I think. I don't remember any sexual misconduct stuff going on though...I know the Pikes were notorious for roofies (allegedly).

    The fraternity scene is not for everyone, that's for sure. It gets a bad wrap in the media & movies like Animal House....idiots that join because they're toolbags & want to be accepted into something then act like toolbags once they're in doesn't help either...that's the one negative I had about it.

    But all in all, I have no regrets about being in one though. Great networking tool, resume builder & obviously good social aspect. In every job interview I've done, I've used numerous stories of leadership roles I held while I was a member to answer a question...never had anyone frown upon it. Also, our chapter was really big into intramurals so there was constantly some sport that needed to be played which was nice.
     
  8. Tuckfro42

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    I pledged Chi Psi at University of the South. Never initiated, though. I got kicked out of school when me and some of my pledge brothers snuck into the Phi Delt house and spray-painted their hundred-year-old moose head pink. Legendary.
     
  9. Alex1939

    Alex1939 Space Invaders Champion

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    Get 80 guys, pool money together, throw band parties, have 100s of sorostitutes running around. That's my sales pitch for joining a frat.

    Sure, you can just go watch a band somewhere. But it's nice when you at least know everyone around you and are friends with most of them.
     
  10. Gunny

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    wtf are you people talking about?
     
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