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Sun. Apr 25, 2004
Politics, Fraternities, and Beer
During a portion of my freshman year at Wake Forest University, I looked into the possibility of joining a fraternity. Away from home for the first time, it seemed it might be a good supportive social environment.
Or it might have been the fact they always had beer.
Whatever it was my 17 year old brain was thinking back then, I asked around about the various frats (there were eight or ten to choose from, as I recall), and narrowed it down to two or three that I visited for a while. And the primary way each of them “sold” me on joining their frat was by telling me what losers the other guys were. “Oh, you don’t want to join Thumper Kye, they’re a bunch of potheads and geeks. I guess you could consider Pu Krappa Nu, if you want to hang with thick-necked jocks and Phys Ed majors. Wannanudder brew-ski?”
After I’d gone back and forth to the fraternities and heard their “loser-pitch,” all they had done was convince me that they were all a waste of my time. And that they had little to offer but negativity.
Well, the beer, too.
The problem I see at many of the highly partisan web sites out there today? They don’t even have beer.
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Yes, but there is a difference: you can always not join any fraternity. There will be a President of the United States regardless of whether you vote.
It is therefore far less dangerous for either candidate if you simply don’t vote, since one of the two of them will be president.
I would have agreed with you re fraternities last year. But then my kid arrived at William and Mary for his freshman year and joined a music fraternity. You have to be able to play an instrument or two, I think.
Anyway, they don’t drink. They’re probably geeky as all get out, but they seem to have fun.
Of course, what can you say about a kid who, at the age of six, cried because Bush Sr. lost the election? Some of us are born that way, hmmm?
“Yes, but there is a difference: you can always not join any fraternity. There will be a President of the United States regardless of whether you vote.”
A difference? I didn’t join any fraternity. Yet all of them continued to exist. Just as there will be a President, even if I don’t vote for one.
“they don’t drink. They’re probably geeky as all get out, but they seem to have fun”
Oh, I’m sure things have changed considerably. This was the mid 70’s … the same era as the movie Animal House. ‘Nuff said…
“I didn’t join any fraternity. Yet all of them continued to exist.”
Yes, they did, but with fewer members (less revenue, fewer people to contribute labor to events and participate in them, etc.). If you don’t vote in this election, the end result is that there was 1 fewer vote in the election. That’s all.