The Bad...

One thing that we all can agree on in our visions and mission statements is that we all want to better ourselves, the community, and each other.  But there are some times in which we don’t follow to what our statements say or want. What is happening? We are doing stupid drunken stuff. This leads to society to look down on us, the Greek community.   This also giving people with the intent of being drunken messes to join Greek life, therefore keeping the stereotype going.

We need to stop being drunk everywhere. Granted most of the Greeks do drink on the weekends (including Thursdays). People see us with letters on being dumb at community service events, philanthropy events, and so on. Even though it is just a few people doing it most of the time during the day, what about night time when you have a social event, singing songs and yelling letters. Society already has a bad view of us; we don’t need to give them more reason do dislike us.

Most of us are SOCIAL fraternity/sorority but this doesn’t mean we need to belligerent or being stupid in front of others.  My definition of social is interacting with other people and making connections. That doesn’t mean we have to drink in order to fit the definition of social. I feel as though having other events like philanthropy events are social, as well as just ice cream socials, fire pit and smores and so on. We don’t have to have TG’s to be social, but that doesn’t exclude TG’s from being social in my definition. We just need to have them less than like once or twice every week, so we are less drunk in the community therefore we have less chance of doing something stupid.

We need to change how society views us. I mean look at everybody else in the world they drink, they get belligerent, they do stupid stuff, but they don’t have letters on representing a group. To the outside world the Greek letters we wear mean almost nothing the specific organization, they see the  Greeks as one big group. We need to wear our letters and do GOOD, not bad.