Posted on 08/21/2022 12:03:03 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
On a warm Friday afternoon, a large crowd of young men walked along 28th Street near USC wearing sneakers, colored shorts and lanyards imprinted with their names as they visited one fraternity house after another.
They were welcomed by other young men dressed in colorful T-shirts branded with their fraternity name and graphic designs — one showed a hand wrapped around a glass bottle, another played off the "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" movie poster that featured a blond woman brandishing a sword. Another showed a retro image of a woman in formal attire being offered a bottle of soda — “Rush Kappa Alpha 2022,” the shirt said.
Rap and house music blasted from speakers. The guys shot hoops and lobbed a volleyball in a sand pit. And on the sidewalk, prospective and current fraternity members traded notes. “This one had the free burritos,” one said to two young men next to him.
In many ways, such fall "rush" or recruitment activities are a Greek life rite of passage. But they are limited at USC. In 2017, the university banned fall rush for first-year students after multiple reports of hazing at fraternity houses and longstanding faculty concerns about the negative effect of pledging rituals on student grades and health.
However, the eight fraternities that welcomed first-year students to their recruitment event Friday had all disaffiliated from USC last week. In a bold move and despite USC warnings, they decided that, for better or worse, they would rather be free from what they said are unfair university policies and chart their own course.
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Paging Dean Wormer. It is time to put a foot down and that foot is you!
Perfect! Just perfect.
Put Niedermayer on it!
“You can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!”
The harder the leftists fist squeezes this country and its people the more we disappear between their fingers. The only options left for them is retreat or war.
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
I....state my name
Do hereby pledge allegiance to the frat
With liberty and fraternity for all
Amen.
KA was the animal house at U of MD back in the day
their house was off campus
as long as 50 years ago, a USC frat (and rumor had it several frats) were actively filming homosexual (mostly) porno films in their fraternity row houses on 28th Street
frats will be frats
the university would be wise to dissociate itself from frats and sororities since the residents are going to do as they wish anyway
the college having any connection with frats is a very out-dated hold-over from the In Loco Parentis ethic of the 19th Century. cut the times, Troy. you can’t control what goes on anyway so why is the university still trying to be in the fraternity business?
Even before that when the Japanese sunk the Lusitania.
I’m pretty sure the USC administration helped the breakaway frats with this response:
“The following groups are NOT AFFILIATED with USC. They are not subject to oversight by university staff, and have elected to forgo support resources and other benefits provided to recognized student groups. Some groups are undertaking unauthorized recruitment. Students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to not join or affiliate with these organizations.”
i “rushed” all of the fraternities
i was drunk for a week
Who had the free burritos - the Kappa Sigma Hermanos?
As long as it wasn’t Eta Smegma Pi.
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