Do I detect some bitterness?
I have never been part of a frat, but a lot of the frats out there are stellar and most are far from being elitist or megalomanic. Great people, and awesome networking oppurunties.
That's true.
A lot of people have the wrong assumption of fraternities and sororities in general.
One assumption is that all Greeks (fraternities and sororities) are alcoholic drug-addicted trouble makers. :roll:
I think that fraternities and sororities are a good thing. They actually help people improve themselves in a lot of ways.
When I was part of NSA, I noticed a few things...
Note: NSA is NTID Student Assembly. It's run by a neutral committee made up of a speaker, vice speaker, and clerk (aka secretary). Those who attend are representatives of clubs and organizations under NTID (deaf Greeks and non-Greeks). One representative from each group is the voice of that group and count as one vote towards whatever occurs within the meeting.
I noticed that Greeks were very cooperative while non-Greeks weren't. Greeks were always up-to-date with everything while non-Greeks were often dumbfounded with what goes on.
The reason for this is because Greeks tend to assign or elect year-round positions. With that, we can expect the Greek representatives to be the same person year round (may change once during each term that occur mid-year).
However, with non-Greeks... it tends to be voluntary or randomly assigned each week. With that, we will see different representatives in each meeting.
Before you ask, "Why not the same person?" Well, non-Greek clubs and organizations don't have much requirements. Members can come and go as they please. That's why it's often difficult to maintain year-round commitment from some members.
During the NSA meetings, if someone untabled a proposal from last week's meeting... all the Greeks would be ready to continue the discussion. Most of the non-Greeks would be sitting there puzzled because they weren't at last week's meeting (they change representatives almost every week). So, the discussion for that proposal ends up being twice longer and the meetings become a bit inefficient.
There would be a few non-Greek representatives that stayed year-round. Those are the ones that I call committed and have potential leadership abilities. We need more people like those. That's something I try to encourage non-Greeks.
