<p>@Vihzel</p>
<p>LOL someone created an account named Vihzel to post on collegeconfidential. You see what I did there?</p>
<p>I hear a lot of *****ing about politicians but it’s you guys that voted them into office and if you think you can do a better job then why don’t you run for office?</p>
<p>Most of the people who hate on Fraternities are just jealous but don’t want to admit it. Other than that I have plenty of friends who aren’t Greek.</p>
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<p>Nothing particularly clever, it would seem.</p>
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<p>How could someone not admit to being jealous of a person that says “hate on”?</p>
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<p>This is an interesting twist on the “my best friend is black” argument.</p>
<p>“This is an interesting twist on the “my best friend is black” argument.”</p>
<p>Why is it a twist?</p>
<p>I choose not to associate with people who have a negative view on Greek Life.</p>
<p>^ You are hilarious. :D</p>
<p>I am definitely not jealous of being in a fraternity. I’d say that most of the people who hate on fraternities do it because they despise fraternities. lol I’m not offended at all though… but I know you are. Frats are an interesting bunch in general. 
I hope you put your account to good use and talk on other subforums or else you’re wasting your time and caring too much on what students on CC think.</p>
<p>That makes both of us then. Going Greek was the best decision of my life and I have many great memories because of that. </p>
<p>I’m not going to post in any other subforums to prove I’m worthy of staying here.</p>
<p>hahaha what else are you going to tell me gogreek that you wouldn’t call your country a *<strong><em>? I have heard all those statistics before. They dont mean *</em></strong> and correlation does not prove causation</p>
<p>Also, just because you don’t think you are gods gift to your campus and that everyone should worship you doesn’t make you insecure. I mean good god man get off this site and go jerk it to totalfratmove or something</p>
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<p>Because it’s clearly not the exact same thing</p>
<p>Yes. I think they should be banned from public universities. Private universities are all about exclusion so let them make their homes there.</p>
<p>-Fraternity dominance of the social scene of many campuses heightens risks for young women.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>That’s the excuse. The reasons guys join frats are to have a good time, develop a network, and gain access to the fraternity’s test bank.</p>
<p>You don’t have to join a frat to “have a good time,” but wanting to join one for that reason isn’t “wrong.”</p>
<p>I had a 4.0/4.0 GPA when I interviewed for internships in my third year, and I only got two interviews. I thought one of them went well, but I didn’t get the offer, and I knew the other one was a complete disaster. Mind you, I wasn’t expecting a job automatically just because of that, but I was expecting more interviews so I could sell myself and convince the interviewer that I was worth hiring. By contrast, my fellow classmates who were in Greek Life easily acquired internships by virtue of their connections. There are other ways to network, but again, wanting to go Greek for this reason isn’t “wrong.”</p>
<p>It’s pretty well known that fraternities have exam, quiz, and homework copies from pretty much any class any pledge has ever taken in the chapter’s history. IMHO, this is a major perk of Greek Life, so I always chuckle when pro-Greek users downplay it.</p>
<p>I love how the CC outcry against fraternities doesn’t even specify what type of fraternity they want to ban–possibly due to ignorance. Are all of you against all fraternities? Or just purely social ones? What about ones for certain ethnicities? (Almost none of these ban other ethnic groups from membership) What about co-ed fraternities? Do they foster an unsafe enviroment for young women? What about professional fraternities?
I’m a female officer in a co-ed chemistry fraternity. Am I automatically the doucebag masoginyst most of you assume brothers are? And yes, we’re all brothers because in the early seventies when the fraternity went co-ed, they decided that all members would always be brothers because there is no perceived difference due to gender.–So basically less sexist than most people even today.</p>
<p>I just don’t see the point of having fraternities from the perspective of the university. They are largely just school sponsored drinking clubs. Without the alcohol aspect their membership would cease to exist or at the very best largely decline.</p>
<p>But like I said, I might disagree with the aspect of Greek Life but I am glad I joined a fraternity. When used successfully a fraternity can be a powerful tool to meet people, give back to the community, attain leadership positions, make connections with alumni and fellow students, improve academics, etc. I would say most greeks skip those parts and use it to drink but I can 100 percent say that being in a fraternity has made me a better man.</p>
<p>Why does the “history” of fraternities matter? Why not just the present?</p>
<p>I might be in favor of banning them from public universities if it weren’t for the point made about frats not depending upon the university to exist and that eliminating university oversight would make them even more dangerous.</p>
<p>Well women should kinda know frat houses aren’t the safest places in the world for them… especially if they want to get drunk</p>
<p>I mean, if a woman puts her hand on the stove and burns it, should we ban stoves? Even though she knew before hand that the stove was hot.</p>
<p>Edit: oh, hhahahaa, I just made a “woman in the kitchen” joke on accident, hahaha</p>
<p>Frat parties aren’t safe for women because an extremely high percentage of rape and sexual assault come from those parties over other parties.</p>
<p>This is probably because of the anonymity involved with frat parties. Women can go with 1 or 2 friends because getting invited is very simple. While for much smaller house parties you will probably be friends or at least know most of the people there (so rape is less likely to happen)</p>
<p>You also have scum bags in some fraternities that, when drunk, can try anything to have sex. Now this is the bad image of greek life but let me tell you those kind of people are a TINY minority.</p>
<p>Fraternity parties also do many things well. They usually provide drivers to prevent the chance at any DUIs and also have sober monitors.</p>
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<p>that statts is just a prof of how much f`ed up this country is</p>
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More or less than your ability to convey your thoughts coherently?</p>
<p>I’m wondering, if this culture of “frat members attacking women” is so closely tied to alcohol use, why colleges seem not to be considering prohibition. Or, better yet, why not just ban men (and bisexuals/lesbians)?</p>
<p>Yes. And Sororities.</p>