From: garvey@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Heather Garvey)
Subject: Re: Fraternities  was (Re: still more practical jokes
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Organization: Smith Undergrad Lab, CWRU, Cleve. OH
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 04:28:00 GMT

wasylik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Wasylik) writes:
>
>By the way, what exactly is your gripe about Greeks?  You reek of someone who
>got rejected from some house or other.  (I know... Generic Frat-Boy Checklist
>Item Number whatever.  Yawn...)  Why are you so damned bitter?  Don't tell me
>you don't know plenty of non-Greek assholes to toy with.

	*Sigh* That's the only thing that irks me about a lot of this.
*Obviously* if we can't see the beauty and truth of the Greek system,
then we must be embittered people... I disliked that garbage the first 
time I heard it and my opinion hasn't changed since. 

	Maybe he was like me, happily living under my squatter's rights
in the dorms when the Greeks decided they wanted to move to the Southside
dorms. We were told that we would be 'relocated'. Sorry, babes, I don't
want to move. But because they were Greek, they got special housing 
considerations. Can I get 18 of my best friends together and claim whatever
patch of housing we want? Noooo... But the Greeks? Sure...They get the 
pick of housing, while we got 'relocated'. 
	On top of that, the Southside is very un-Greek (notice I said
UN- not ANTI-). All in-dorm fraternities were Northside and the few
Southside frats were located in their own houses in a separate block
of dorms. We didn't *want* Greeks en masse in our dorms. But we were
not really given a chance. Until we waged an extensive campaign against
them. Instead of just leaving us alone, they decided that we 'needed to 
experience Greeks and then we'd see the light' (An actual paraphrase from 
a letter to the editor) Puh-lease. If you like being a lemming, fine. 
I don't care. When not being provoked, I can even admit that a few are 
kinda cool. :) But don't tell *ME* that I'm not 'enlightened' because 
I don't want to join a bunch of girls that toss their hair and give 
that annoying little squeak.
	(Seriously. When I came here, I knew nothing of the Greek system
and thought a soror. might be great. The soror. rep. was a total bubblehead.
Fearing it might be contageous, I fled. Yeah, you aren't all like that.
But that's all we got here.)
	What irritates me about Greeks? Their special priviledges. 
They get Housing priority. And I just had to listen to them whine about
Greek Week and got one of my exams rearranged because they couldn't
handle their academics and be rabid Greeks at the same time. There 
are three soror. babes in front of me in Beginning Anthropology 
that cannot take a full set of notes between them. They sit there in class
and keep looking at each others' notes whispering "Did you get that?
He's going too faaast..." Duh. And these dips get my exam changed so it's 
smack on top of my PChem. Of course, they couldn't abandon the Greek Week
festivities...Oh, no!! That's more important than classwork or studying,
which they need plenty of... Listening to them justify the whole University
grinding to a halt for a week just for them. *gag* The Engineers have 
Engineering Week and *THEY* still manage to get to classes a lot harder 
than Anthro.
	And yes, I know of their wonderful charitable works. I attend
the Greek-sponsored blood drive every time it comes here. 'course, I've 
run one of these blood drives before, and if you need a whole organization
complete with special housing and shit to actually hold this event, then 
you have some seeeerious problems...

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