hard to feel bad about greek life trouble
Greek life is huge in Alabama and both Auburn and Tuscaloosa have mega-sized sororities and fraternities. I always thought them superficial and trite. “The best friends money can buy” is what many of us said of the Panhellenic Council types. Back in the ‘80s while doing some irregular post-graduate work at the University of Alabama, my project for film making class was (real celluloid film in those days) poking fun of Greek life on campus.
These days my position has shifted a bit because the frats and sororities do uphold certain traditions. The girls wear dresses for many events and are, on average, more conservative than the independents. Many frat boys are painstakingly polite and fairly aware of the Left’s power on campus.
Still, I was a Chi Rho (College Republican but those letters also stand for the first two letters in Christ’s name in Greek). I was YAF chairman at Tuscaloosa which was William F. Buckley’s Young Americans for Freedom. The April Fool’s edition of the Crimson White called us “YAF — Youth Against Fagotry).