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Who woulda guessed Keiro Nursing Home?
QUESTION: Funny, outside of this newgroup, I flame greeks as much as
as anynone else. Derogatory remarks about whorish behavior (men especially.),
racially oriented clubs....etc. Here however, I find myself defending them.
Who woulda guessed?
In defense of the greeks:
The greek system is built around this party-type mentality. The
stereotypes we see are carried from "Animal House" "Revenge of the Nerds"
type movies. However, as much as Asians are dissed in the media, so are
greeks. The party side is shown, but the service side is not.
The greek system helps many charities with their time and money.
Gamma-Phi-Beta (My lil' sis's sorrority) has 2 fundraisers a year (that I know
of) Song-fest, and Cut-a-Thon. Both functions raise int he neighborhood
of $10,000.00 ffor charity. In order to charter a Greek Organization
(supposedly) the group can not show a positive profit at the end of the
year. This means, if their fund-raisers(those not specifically for charity,
like song-fest) do well, and cover costs of functions, the organization will
donate
excess money to local charities. My own fraternal organization (Asian Greek,
not Greek) tried to have 2-3 service projects a month. Brothers in the
chapter would donate their time for a weekend to charities(mostly Asian or
Asian affiliated) Keiro Nursing home....Chi-B-K...etc. We have even won
the most service oriented fraternity award 3 of the first 6 times it has been
awarded(Asian greeks only)
So as to those who have been flaming Greek organizations, Don't just
notice the parties and problems, look at the whole picture. Thanks for
listening
ANSWER: I definitely agree that there is a big service side to Greek
organizations. The Greek system where I was an undergrad certainly
raised a _lot_ of money for charities. But do people _join_
frats/sororities in order to do public service? I guess my question was
more like "_Why_ do people want to join the Greek system?" as opposed to
actually asking about the merits of the Greek system.
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