Should fraternities and sororities be banned?

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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With all of the recent reports of drunkeness, sexual assault, racist displays, and the crazy hazing it seems that they are just incubators of bad behavior, You might think that this should not include sororities but some of them are beginning to emulate fraternities with booze parties. Perhaps it is time to stop the silliness and get back to the seriousness of studying...
 

What purpose do they serve? What is their value?

We don't have this sort of system although there are residential colleges attached to some of the sandstone universities.
 
I'll let someone who belonged to one extol their benefits as I always commuted and never was involved in campus life other than attending class...
 

Thanks, but I was a veteran and had gotten past that stage of life to some degree in order to get a degree...:cool:
 
I did not join a fraternity. I was offered to join two after attending their "open house." Just didn't see any benefit and I thought that it would be a distraction to my studies. For some, it does help. If a graduate goes after a job he really wants and hooks up with a fraternity brother at that company, he will no doubt get the job over a candidate that did not belong to the same fraternity, even though he may have been a better candidate.
 
I went to through the pledge week ceremonies and was invited to join a fraternity, but decided that wasn't the reason I'd come to the university and so turned down the invitation with no subsequent regrets. They will always be an unsavory, alcohol smelling memory in my mind but I don't suppose that's a reason to ban then.
 
Yeah, pledge week, more like party week. Back in the 60's, there was only one fraternity that I considered and those guys got hazed like nothing I ever seen before. Most of them were the real geeks that people liked to beat up and make fun of because most of them were the brains of the university. I thought if I join these guys and need help with my trig and calculus, I wouldn't have to pay for a tutor. On the other hand, I probably would be spending the money on band aids and iodine. Then, I also considered going into the ROTC program, but with the war heating up that wouldn't have worked out either, so I just commuted to and from my aunt and uncle's everyday, which was 35 miles one-way.
 
I believe the original function of fraternities was to provide a networking base for future career opportunities. I think it's now just a bunch of people to get into trouble with.
 
QuickSilver said:
I believe the original function of fraternities was to provide a networking base for future career opportunities. I think it's now just a bunch of people to get into trouble with.
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That's what I was saying in my first reply. If I go for a job and meet up with a frat brother and the other two guys applying for the same job went to a different college or belonged to a different fraternity, then I would get the job, even if I was lesser qualified.
 
oldman said:
That's what I was saying in my first reply. If I go for a job and meet up with a frat brother and the other two guys applying for the same job went to a different college or belonged to a different fraternity, then I would get the job, even if I was lesser qualified.
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Yes that's the idea behind a lot of the clubs and secret organizations... Skull and Bones Society comes to mind. John Kerry, and all the Bushes.. starting with Prescott, Herbert walker and George W are members.

http://www.businessinsider.com/skull-and-bones-alumni-2011-2
 
I'm with Ralphy on this. We had the same kind of fun on weekends but WITHOUT joining a frat, which didn't interfere with learning.
Being a vet I was older than the usual frat members, and I had a LOT of vet buddies.
 
I think fraternities and sororities are uniquely American. I was staying at my brother's last summer in a university town and it was flooded with new students and all the pledgers for the s and f's. Even in the middle of the day many of them were drunk wandering the streets - classes hadn't started yet. They weren't old enough for the bars so did a lot of the drinking at the big mansions which had been turned into frat houses and sororities.
 
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