Thursday, February 3, 2011
Fraternities
Another thing that I am very passionate about is the Greek life at Penn State. This past semester I pledged a fraternity and am now a brother at Alpha Chi Rho. Now that I am a member of this group, I see everything wrong with the stereotypes that are associated with fraternities. Sure, we do like to party and have fun, but we are also about so much more than that. We do so many things with the community such as THON, Greek or Treat, where we give out candy to the little kids, and holiday lights, where we decorate our house for Christmas and for the little kids to stop by again. We also go on canning weekends and, especially in the winter, stand in the harsh weather and collect money for THON. I just wish more people could see past the stereotypes and appreciate what we do for the community.
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I'm not in a sorority, but I guess I can sort of relate with the stereotyping issue. I have a lot of friends who are in frats and a lot of friends who aren't. Anytime I go to the frats on the weekend, my other friends make fun of me to no extent. What they don't realize is that sure, there are a lot of jerks in frats, but there are also a lot of fun people. AXP is definitely one of the chill-er frats, so congrats on finally becoming a brother :)
ReplyDeleteI think the things frats do for the community are great. THON is an awesome cause and without the frats and their canning trips there's no way THON would be able to raise as much money as it does. And people always say frat parties are dirty and all kinds of other negative things but I like frat parties. Its definately something fun to do on the weekend
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