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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USC is all kind of one big fraternity, isn’t it
These young men finally got the message from the woke administration: “ Hey you f***ed up; you trusted us.”
Der Tiger! Der Tiger! Der Tiger!
“This may seem an inopportune moment to ask, but do you think you could see your way clear to giving us just one more chance?”
KA was the animal house at U of MD back in the day
their house was off campus
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Sigma-Alpha-Mu (The Sammy House) at UNT (University of North Texas) in the 1980’s made guys in Animal House look like pikers.
I can proudly say, that as a TKE, I share the same fraternity as Ronald Reagan.
Haha. Eta Kau Pi.
Had the shirt for about 20 years before it fell apart.
A fellow Terp! I remember it well....
At Michigan back in the 70’s, we had an arms length relationship with the university. We had to deal with the city for softy inspections, but that was about it. It worked out just fine for us. I never understood why in other schools there were such close ties.
softy -> safety
face it, “You F’cked Up, You Trusted Us”...
But what actually preceded that was the downfall of the whole university system.
We have trusts for our kids, but they certainly don’t have a “college fund”, an anachronistic idea that only feeds the government/higher education complex. Universities are a civilizational cancer in the US, and except in very narrow circumstances (STEM, law), I won’t pay for them to go to “college”, and am steering them in other directions.
How did I miss all this fun when I went to Stanford? People were doing serious academics and had to work hard, for the most part.
Same as KA at University of Florida.
When I was at UF, I thought Sig Ep was the Animal House.
Not true.
A woman was expelled from college when it was discovered that she used the N-word at age 15 (innocently mimicking rappers).
White teen pushed out of college after video of her saying N-word at 15 resurfaces
So yeah, colleges do expel students for off-campus behavior they disapprove of.
My fraternity at Stanford is affiliated with one of the bigger frats at USC.
Heck, our fraternity dont listen nor obey the idiot rules the university gives. As long as no plebe gets hurt during hell week, ANYTHING GOES and that’s been the agreement going on the past 100 years.
bigdaddy45 wrote: “Wow, are college men finally finding their balls? If a bunch of guys (or girls) want to get together, why should the University have any say at all in the matter?”
Depends upon the state. When I was at Oklahoma, all students had to live in university housing. The fraternity and sorority, although privately owned, were allowed to function as university housing. IOW, disaffilation from the university meant the houses were no longer university housing and no one could live there unless they were over 21.
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