Frat Brothers?

Our neigbor had to do that for his initiation... It was kind of a stick hold though for the guy in front of him.
 
I'm an ATO at South Carolina, shits great, don't let people bullshit you about it, its fun, but down here pledging is no cake walk, I don't know about you yankees and canadians though
 
that's actually pretty respectable dude. sounds like a minority though. i'm surprised the frat boys here at CSU can even tie their own shoes without puking up last night's keystone light. i'm usually the last person to stereotype/generalize, but when it comes to frats (here at least) i take an exception. i have lived here for five years and have yet to come across a frat boy who wasn't a complete and utter waste of life.
 
Wow, you guys really have a narrow minded view of the greek system. Check it out with an open mind, and if its not for you than whatever no problem, no need to trash talk something you don't really know a single thing about. Pretty much every stereotype voiced about fraternities are dead wrong. I'm a member of a fraternity at UBC and have been for 3 years and its awesome. I would never regret my decision to join.
 
^i suppose it all depends on location. come to where i live and if you can find a frat boy who doesn't wear a popped collar and have the iq of a popsicle stick i'll give you $50
 
^Ok fair enough. I have only seen the chapters at my own campus and the ones at the UW, so I will only speak on those.
 
people who say its "payed for friends" havnt experianced a frat. First off if you want to be a part of a frat you have to go through rush or you get rushed.. When your doing this you can pic a house that best suits you... Your not paying to have friends... Its just like living in the dorms if you think about it your living next to othe rpeople and your paying to live there. You dont have to get along with EVERYONE in the house... Frats are not for everyone and if you cant find a house that fits you then dont join. untill you really get the lagists of frats then stop talkin shit. and if you have and you still feel the same then thats your opinion.

im a K Sig
 
I've met a lot of frat guys and sorority girls and about 90 percent of them, were in my opinion, complete tools/bitches. Obviously some people who join frats I may find cool, but in my experience (two universities, URI and UNM) I found most "Greeks" to not be cool.

The networking thing Sharpy was talking about is accurate but I've made plenty of contacts and such without a frat so I guess i don't see the point.

Hey to each his own.
 
first off I can tell you are definatly gonna need to learn alot.

its not frat its fraterinty...

do you call your country a cunt? didnt think so, so stop being lazy and say the whole damn word
 
Actually noble one it's spell fraternity...and yes, frat is a convenient abbreviation, thanks for the pointer webster
 
haha what its true, most presidents will punish an incomming freshman that calls it frat. im not just making this up i was in ATO at one point
 
Where I went to school, Frat's were pointless beyond belief, mostly because On-Campus townhouses were wicked nice, much nicer than the Frat houses. Plus it was a wet campus, so that wasn't an issue either. But there were definitly no stereo-typical "Frat Guys". It was mostly kind of dorky kids, or social ackward quiet types. Some of them were kind of tools... but it's exactly the type of people who should be in a Frat because they need help making friends. But anyways, the Frat's definitly weren't "cool" and the houses weren't great so for most normal people, there was really no point. You'll probably end up banging more sorority girls just by not being a complete tool than by being in a frat. if that's the kind of thing you're looking for.
 
^I've found that since the greek community at my university is so tight, its easier to hit up sorority chicks if you're not part of a frat. The girls know EVERY "bad" thing each frat guy has done, while not being part of a frat but still friends with some kids allows for pick ups with a clean slate.
 
Honestly my thing against frats is this (Not all) but i have seen so many kids who were chill as hell and join a frat and fall off the face of the earth to all their other friends its bullshit!

Also it is BUYING friends. Whether it be in a good or a bad way. You pay dues to hang out and party with the same group of guys to live with them have closed parties with them and basically be dicks to other guys outside of that frat!

Comfort yourself how you will its buying friends
 
most of my friends are actually in frats...and I do hang out with them alot, so how do i know nothing about them? and my ex gf is the president of her sorority. I know plenty about them and they are all lameeeeee.
 
nice, my fraternity is three weeks old and it's already official. Wait till we come out with t-shirts (projected date: never). too bad we only have one greek leter (?)
 
Man, everyone is slamming on their inability to "think for themselves." I don't know about that, I just hate the frats at my college cause they are all spiked hair, popped collar, preppy bitches who think they surf or something and I want to kick all their asses.
 
A couple of things.

I enjoy the greek system at MY campus. I cannont vouch for any other campus. But I will say that odds are that they are plenty of sweet fraternities and fraternity guys out there. That being said, I am sure there are a lot of really weak fraternities and fraternity guys out there.

A big issue is a predetermined image. A lot of the responses I get when i mention "my fraternity" is "ohhhhh...you're in a frat....".

Now these may have been people I have known a long time, or not. But I usually have some success turning thier opinions around with showing them around etc.

A big problem is that when you introduce someone to fraternity life, or they come to a fraternity party, they have trouble seperating the stuff they see from a "frat party" then from a normal "house party". I've seen a lot of crazy shit at random house parties. A lot of the craziest things you see at fraternity partys are randoms that show and and say "hey its a frat party, I can be disgusting."

As for paying for friends, I don't pay for a single one. I wasn't in school last year and nothing changed. Also, every cent I pay each year I get back in tickets to parties, free booze, free tickets to campus events, 2 formal banquet dinners, a lot of expertise in my faculty, a TON of summer job oppurtunities, offers for the sweetest volunteering positions and one of the biggest ways I get my money back: free sports (which is really expensive to play at my university ie 100+ bucks for intramural hockey plus I play on two soccer teams, and do many one time events).

So try not to generalize and judge everything before you check it out with an unbias opinion. It may totally not be for you, and thats fine, as long as you didn't already have that idea coming in.

In the end of anything, all you're left with is your experiences. And as a fraternity whether they are good or bad, you learn from all of them, and hopefully more will be good than bad.
 
We do tonnes of community service as well. We are in the top volunteering groups on a campus of 40,000. We made 2000 sandwiches for the homeless last week. Every year we volunteer to help run the "24 Hour relay for the kids", we volunteer about 30 guys for The Sun Run, we help run the local yacht regatta and do so much more.

Waste of life?
 
In all honesty though I wouldn't be in a frat at any other school, but hereit works out quite well for someone who wants people to get to keep as close to a regular school as possbile at this damn School o nerds
 
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