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- Subject: Re: Fraternal Reality From a Greek
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.152145.2402@gacvx2.gac.edu>
- From: censtad@perdita.gac.edu (Christopher B Enstad)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:21:43 -0600
- References: <1992Nov18.001845.11979@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.001845.11979@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?
- >
- > It's a remarkable effort at misdirection and mischaracterization. Yeah,
- > fraternities do a lot of good. But they also do a lot of bad. 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.
- > --
- > ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
- > standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
- > the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
-
-
- Well then , i'm curious as to why every anti-frat argument sounds like
- this one? Frats do bad, bad, bad!!!! That's bullshit. Most frats do
- good, SOME do bad and they are unfortunatley the ones who get the
- publicity. What good would being in a frat do if there weren't some kind
- of pledging process first? It wouldn't mean as much... or don't you know
- this ted.
-