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After a tumultuous several days in which a highly publicized campus news article alleged widespread race discrimination in the University of Alabama pledging process, school president Judy Bonner on Friday night issued a video statement in which she said diversity is increasing in the school's Panhellenic world.

Seventy-two bids – offers to allow a person to pledge – have been offered by the mostly white sororities on the Tuscaloosa campus in the last week, Bonner said.

Of those, 11 went to black women and three to women representing other minority groups, Bonner said.

Four black women accepted and two women representing other minority groups accepted.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/20/university-of-alabama-bids-racism-sororities/2845425/
 
The sororities are not representative of the university. Anyone who thinks its news that they are prejudice is ignorant of sororities and fraternities all over the nation.

They don't want minorities, ugly people, the handicapped, jews, overweight people, nerds, or anything except wealthy white kids. They are the college equivalent of country clubs.

I have no problem with removing the entire greek system from all college campuses.
 
The original fraternities in the US were race suppremacist organizations. It's just keeping with tradition. I'm sure 99% of students and alumni who have pledged to the Greek system over the past thirty years were unaware of this, as they just came to party, but, that's how it was.
 
WinterBorn said:
The sororities are not representative of the university. Anyone who thinks its news that they are prejudice is ignorant of sororities and fraternities all over the nation.

They don't want minorities, ugly people, the handicapped, jews, overweight people, nerds, or anything except wealthy white kids. They are the college equivalent of country clubs.

I have no problem with removing the entire greek system from all college campuses.
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Doesn't bother me. I always thought of frats as social clubs for second rate people who lack ability and talent and have to depend on social connections instead of ability to get buy in life. Having a Greek pin is the sure sign of a second rater in my book.

I was far to busy busting my ass off studying to play gay Greek games. By far the overwhelming majority of frat boys I knew were snobbish assholes who looked down their nose at everybody and took Mickey Mouse majors cause Daddy was going to put their ass to work in the family business when the graduated. I was invited to pledge three Frats when I was in college. All of them so called "academic" frats. I laughed in their faces.
 
Could it be that somebody didn't get pledged?

U still jelly?



The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded on December 5, 1776, at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is generally recognized as the first Greek-letter student society in North America.


Most Greek letter organizations are social organizations, presenting themselves as societies to help their members better themselves in a social setting.


A variety of Greek letter organizations are distinguished from social groups by their function.


They can be specifically organized for service to the community, for professional advancement, or for scholastic achievement.Greek letter organizations may sometimes be considered mutual aid societies, providing academic and social activities. Some groups also maintain a chapter house, providing residential and dining facilities for members.


Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi, both African American Fraternities, were established at Cornell University in 1906 and Indiana University – Bloomington in 1911, respectively, the first Chinese fraternity, established at Cornell in 1916, and Sigma Iota, the first Hispanic fraternity, established at Louisiana State University in 1904.[10] The latter later merged with other Hispanic fraternities and organizations around the nation to form Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest Latino fraternity in existence, in 1931.


Many Greek letter organizations make philanthropy an integral part of their objectives to reach beyond their own group to support others.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities_in_North_America
 
Yes, there are greek organizations that are not social clubs. I was in Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa. But those are completely different from the fraternities and sororities Mott and I are talking about.

And yes, most fraternities and sororities do some charity work. But for every time they do a fund raiser or visit some underprivileged group, they will throw a dozen parties. As Mott said, they are a social club for rich kids.

And no, there is no jealousy here. I was not pledged. But I went to college after I got out of the navy. I was married with 3 children, so I was not interested in a fraternity. But I did pick on frat boys when I was younger & partying on campus.
 
Could it be that the problem in America is not the political left or the political right, it's Americans themselves? When other first world countries are not experiencing the problems to the same degree maybe it's time to look at yourselves, regardless of your politics.
 
Wow, a lot of hating on fraternities. To each his own as to whether the Greek system is something people want to get involved in while they are in school. Sounds like a lot of bitterness here though.

I was in a fraternity and loved it. Met my three best friends there and had a great experience. My fraternity was diverse ethnically and economically. It's wasn't an all white country club.
 
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Wow, a lot of hating on fraternities. To each his own as to whether the Greek system is something people want to get involved in while they are in school. Sounds like a lot of bitterness here though.
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I guess a certain amount of "sour grapes" has to be expected from those who weren't pledged and resorted to bullying as a result.
 
I went to a small university where the Greek system is banned for repeated infractions, and is relatively meaningless. Also, I had very recently gone through all of my military training, and wasn't in the mood for more hazing. Plus, the frats invited us out for all of their major parties, and my first day on campus, a quartet of hot softball girls down the hall from me told me that frats suck.
 
I was in a fraternity, in retrospect however I believe my College experience would have been better without it. While I enjoyed the parties, it actually hampered my involvement in other orginizations and I simply thought so differently than by "brothers" I had a hard time relating to them. I had a lot of friends outside the "frat" which was frowned upon by the "brothers".
 
I was almost kicked out once for attending a gay rights rally. Oh, and it was VERY racist. They did not try to hide it, they simply had a no blacks policy.
 
Every college is different. Some don't even have a Greek system. At some schools Greek life dominates, at others it doesn't have a big role. Where I went to school there wasn't a whole lot to do off campus so Greek life was very big.
 
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