why frats are BUYING friends.
lamb...@my-deja.com
of the others. It happens. No one expects you to make this your life in
a literal sense."
So for all the new comers, you should NOT bother to spend hefty amount
of money to join a soro or a frat!
yea, you may spend 4 years with many girls or guys, but what do you get
at the end, you will only have "a few" if you are lucky enough!
so with that in mind, why bother spending to feed some white men
sitting behind a frat headquarter desk? No one should have paid money
to make friends. period.
here is the original letter from a frat idiot who obviously has spent
lots of money buying a few friends.
_------------
When they talk about lifetime commitment and all that, well, it's not
like mormonism. It's not like they'll hunt you down if you don't
continue to participate.
I don't know exactly how it is in Sororities, but as far as
Fraternities,
I like to think about it as a bunch of good friends. We have a bond
because we get along with each other, and if we didn't, I'm sure it
would
all fall apart. I've graduated about 4 years ago, and still keep in
touch
with a few of the guys. But that's because I wanted to, not because I
felt
like it was some sort of obligation. These few had become good friends
of
mine. I've lost touch with most of the others. It happens. No one
expects
you to make this your life in a literal sense. When it all boils down,
it's a social club. And it's all about having fun. If you don't think
you
would have fun with this group of people, or have the potential to make
some good friends, then don't do it. But if it does seem interesting,
see
if you can find a sorority that matches you. There are a lot of
sororities
out there, and I'm sure you might find one that seems like it's you.
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Everyone, LAMBDA CHI is right!
While we are at it lets stop spending club dues, educational fees, hell lets
stop paying tithe at church! All that stuff is just wasted money!
Yeah, lets stop paying internet providers!
Lets stop paying for food and cloathing!
LETS just be naked gurrillas in the trees! YEAH!
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5ap...@my-deja.com
Obviously some people are very bitter about
fraternities and sororities. It doesn't make
sense to me that they should care where money
goes in these organizations if they weren't
suffering from jealously, rejection, or some
other unfulfilled need to belong. Rather than
listening to the unrestricted rants of some
wannabe telling you that fraternity members buy
their friends, you should investigate them for
yourself.
To set the record straight on a few issues
however... First of all, try having any group of
people organize any kind of function at all, be
it social, philanthropic, or other, without any
funds. You'll find that this is next to
impossible. Fraternities and sororities do
fundraisers and pay dues to allow them to have a
better social life and contribute to their
campuses and communities far beyond that which
they would be otherwise capable of doing as
independent students. Be aware also that chapter
funds are never used in good fraternities and
sororities to buy alcohol. The money they pay to
their national offices allows them to get
scholarships, attend leadership schools and
obtain other resources geared towards teaching
them leadership and organizational skills which
are absolutely essential in today's professional
world.
As far as keeping the friends you make in
college, that's entirely up to the individual.
If you choose to keep in touch with only a few
people, then that's your loss. There are
countless opportunities to remain involved with a
fraternity or sorority far beyond graduation.
From the day you receive your pledge pin until
the day you pass from this life to the next you
can always be an active participant and
contributor to your fraternity or sorority and
the educational interests of its undergraduate
members. There's no excuse for complaining about
having only a couple of good friends after
college if you never made the effort to get
involved with the leadership of your chapter,
with student government on campus and in any
other forum you might be able to be of service.
Personally, I look forward to having the problem
of trying to keep up with the many friends I've
already made and the many more I'll make in the
future, rather than worrying about not having
enough friends to keep in touch with.
Becoming a member of a fraternity or sorority
opens doors that you would never have otherwise
even known existed, much less how to open them.
Greeks are leaders, scholars and role models for
the future leaders of our country. Only about 2%
of all men and women in this country are Greek,
but those same two percent comprise most of the
leaders in every field from small businesses to
national levels of government and international
business. That speaks volumes in and of itself
of what Greeks can do. If you think that
fraternities and sororities are a waste of time
and money, then I challenge you to look at your
own life and experiences and your own abilities
(or lack of as the case may be) and put your
money where your mouth is by doing better than we
do. Until you step up and take some initiative
by being a leader, what do you know about the
benefits of being Greek?
latrobe33
I would hardly call a fraternity an organization for "buying" friends. I
pay under $500 a month for my house bills, and this is what made me
consider living in a fraternity in the first place (though I found other
reasons that significantly outweighed the low cost). For this, I get to
live in a mansion of a house, get meals provided everyday, all basic
utilities, expanded cable, LAN ethernet connection and network connection
to the university, and voice mail. Also, this money goes to the finacial
budget for each of my house's officers, including social events and
philatropic opportunities. Thus, even if you look at fraternities from a
purely financial standpoint and disregard every other person in the house,
living in a fraternity is a great monetary deal. Couple this with the
lasting friendships and even longer lasting memories, and fraternity life
can hardly be called "buying friends". Furthermore, you can hardly say
that the alumni behind the National desk is making a profit from the
fraternity when they are the major contributors to the fraternity's
finacial well being. The money (undergraduate and even more so
from alumni) goes to the house and for the house.
Finally, maybe I understand why lambdachi is posting all of these
ridiculous articles and opinions. After all, the only thing that comes
out of his postings are responses and rebuttals that show how wrong he
is. Who knows, maybe lambdachi is just playing the devils advocate by
posting messages to bring fraternities down, in hopes that we will respond
to them and easily shoot them down. If hes not doing this on purpose,
then I guess he's just ignorant to what he's actually acheiving.
Neil
YITBOS
Kevin Terrill
latrobe33 wrote in message ...
Very well said, both Latrobe33 and 5apples. I never considered the money I
spent belonging to a fraternity as buying friends, it is too bad to see a
fellow Lambda Chi that feels that way. I do realise some people, especially
permanent GDI's, seem to feel that we are buying friends, but that is not
the case. I am sorry my fellow Lambda Chi if you did not get the rich
experience that I did from being a member of our Fraternity. My best
friends, and the ones I hold dearest to my heart, are the friends, no not
friends, Brothers is the actual word that I should be using, are the ones I
made during my stay at MTU (Phi Phi Zeta, for all those Lambda Chi's out
there). But as all experiences are, it is what you make of it.
K.M.Terrill
Allen Cotner
alright. It seems to me that you hold a personal grudge vs. all of them.
What did they do to you? Rape you? Rape your mother? Wreck your car? What?
Please let me know so I entertain my self.
--
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