““It only takes one member to bring down the entire organization,” said Snider, 20, a junior, who served as “pledge educator” and now teaches members SAE rituals.”
Seriously? Is he saying the members who advocated drinking until you pass out didn’t ‘bring down the entire organization’??? What is wrong with people?
Finally, a national fraternity admits that hazing hurts.
Not only are lives lost and shattered, but hazing is so risky that it’s cost far outweigh the benefit.
If we were lucky, this would mark a change in the culture.
If we are not lucky, hazing will continue underground, and become worse.
Can you imagine if the NFL joined with the Greeks and together they changed the course of history by saying NO to hazing?
‘For all we know, they may fail at their grades, and we hold grades to a very high standard. They may be socially awkward or extremely rude or disrespectful, and that will come back to us.” You gotta be kiddin’ me! NONE of the greek houses that were on my campus were in any way bothered or concerned about grades or education. And most of them only paid lip service to any “traditions” let alone their “greek” heritage. It was all about socializing and getting ahead by who you know, not what you know. I went to lots of frat parties and became friends with many of their members but I was not socially inept and found it to be just a way to buy friends or get invited to places that you would not without knowing someone important. Most of American “news” is for folks like that, concentrating on the popular. Just as we have dumbed down education and culture, so it is with the college experience. and coming out of college, I did better than my greek friends because of the good grades and awards I earned. For me, Greeks are an anachronism and have lots their luster and connections with their past.
Does this include the use of inanimate objects in certain orifices or is that still fair game for these Neo-Conservative boy wonders?
So now pledging will be done in an unofficial manner and in a much more passive agressive way. One way or another they are going to test new people.
““It only takes one member to bring down the entire organization,” said Snider, 20, a junior, who served as “pledge educator” and now teaches members SAE rituals.”
Seriously? Is he saying the members who advocated drinking until you pass out didn’t ‘bring down the entire organization’??? What is wrong with people?
Finally, a national fraternity admits that hazing hurts.
Not only are lives lost and shattered, but hazing is so risky that it’s cost far outweigh the benefit.
If we were lucky, this would mark a change in the culture.
If we are not lucky, hazing will continue underground, and become worse.
Can you imagine if the NFL joined with the Greeks and together they changed the course of history by saying NO to hazing?
Btw, I am author of Preventing Hazing.
‘For all we know, they may fail at their grades, and we hold grades to a very high standard. They may be socially awkward or extremely rude or disrespectful, and that will come back to us.” You gotta be kiddin’ me! NONE of the greek houses that were on my campus were in any way bothered or concerned about grades or education. And most of them only paid lip service to any “traditions” let alone their “greek” heritage. It was all about socializing and getting ahead by who you know, not what you know. I went to lots of frat parties and became friends with many of their members but I was not socially inept and found it to be just a way to buy friends or get invited to places that you would not without knowing someone important. Most of American “news” is for folks like that, concentrating on the popular. Just as we have dumbed down education and culture, so it is with the college experience. and coming out of college, I did better than my greek friends because of the good grades and awards I earned. For me, Greeks are an anachronism and have lots their luster and connections with their past.