What do you think of the college Greek system? Roll Call!

[Parthenon]

Rent a friend, join a frat.

In all seriousness though frats aren't that great at A&M. Best party crowd is the Bonfire group, and it's not like you would join a frat for academics (well, I wouldn't at least).

* Over 85% of the student leaders on some 730 campuses are involved in the Greek community.
* All but eight U.S. Presidents have been fraternity men since 1825 when the first social fraternity was founded. Today, 76% of all U.S. Congressmen and Senators are Greek.
* Of the nations 50 largest corporations, 43 are led by fraternity men and sorority women.
* Greeks raise over $7 million for charity every year.
* A U.S. Government study shows that over 70% of all those who join a fraternity/ sorority graduate, while under 50% of all non-fraternity/sorority persons graduate.
* Students who join Greek organizations are more likely to return to school the following year.
* 850,000 hours are annually volunteered by Greeks across the country.
* Approximately 85% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies belong to a fraternity or sorority.

[Dyakovo]

I don't see what the appeal of fraternities/sororities is...

[H N Fiddlebottoms VIII]

* Over 85% of the student leaders on some 730 campuses are involved in the Greek community.
* All but eight U.S. Presidents have been fraternity men since 1825 when the first social fraternity was founded. Today, 76% of all U.S. Congressmen and Senators are Greek.
* Of the nations 50 largest corporations, 43 are led by fraternity men and sorority women.
* Greeks raise over $7 million for charity every year.
* A U.S. Government study shows that over 70% of all those who join a fraternity/ sorority graduate, while under 50% of all non-fraternity/sorority persons graduate.
* Students who join Greek organizations are more likely to return to school the following year.
* 850,000 hours are annually volunteered by Greeks across the country.
* Approximately 85% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies belong to a fraternity or sorority.

Or, to put the list in much shorter form:
Fraternities are populated by the entitled upper crust, so they'd have to try pretty goddamn hard if they wanted not to succeed in life. Good luck finding a fratboy willing to try pretty goddamn hard at anything.

[Intestinal fluids]

And where else would you have tshirt/shorts florescent paint black-light keggers with a preselected bunch of women based on their hotness?? Or the plastic wall and ceiling protected bubble parties where the room looked just like that Brady Bunch episode with the washing machine soap gone crazy but with strobe and disco lights and hot soapy women dancing in the middle of it. Where else in your life will 20 hot female pledges line up in front of you in their underwear and you get to circle their fat with black magic marker? Or wake and bakes when on a Sunday morning an entire army of hot women invade your house at like 6 am with doughnuts and mimosas served in bed. I need to say again...Good Times.

[Aelosia]

And where else would you have tshirt/shorts florescent paint black-light keggers with a preselected bunch of women based on their hotness?? Or the plastic wall and ceiling protected bubble parties where the room looked just like that Brady Bunch episode with the washing machine soap gone crazy but with strobe and disco lights and hot soapy women dancing in the middle of it. Where else in your life will 20 hot female pledges line up in front of you in their underwear and you get to circle their fat with black magic marker? I need to say again...Good Times.

Your brain is submerged in too much testosterone.

I think it came from so many years looking at hot women and not years spend touching them.

But all you can say is that the frat system is great because you get hot women around.

And then you remarked it again.

So, if that is everything, I pass. I can look at a hot woman when I look into a pool of quiet water.

[Thethunderdome]

Rent a friend, join a frat.

In all seriousness though frats aren't that great at A&M. Best party crowd is the Bonfire group, and it's not like you would join a frat for academics (well, I wouldn't at least).

Nothing's that great at A&M.

[/obligatory A&M bashing]

I actually like the bonfire, it's pretty cool.

[Intestinal fluids]

So, if that is everything, I pass. I can look at a hot woman when I look into a pool of quiet water.

Im sad for you that you have missed the experience of dancing with glowing soapy women.

[Parthenon]

And where else would you have tshirt/shorts florescent paint black-light keggers with a preselected bunch of women based on their hotness?? Or the plastic wall and ceiling protected bubble parties where the room looked just like that Brady Bunch episode with the washing machine soap gone crazy but with strobe and disco lights and hot soapy women dancing in the middle of it. Where else in your life will 20 hot female pledges line up in front of you in their underwear and you get to circle their fat with black magic marker? I need to say again...Good Times.

Highlighter parties are always fun, never tried the bubblewrap one though. We usually opted towards having the pledges go out and cut down some bamboo and get sand from a nearby golf course to fill our bar room up for a tiki theme.

You guys actually did the circle the fat back in your day? That was a rumor back where I went but every sorostitute I dated claimed their chapter didn't do it. There was also the newspaper and porno rumor floating around, sororities are vicious.

[Poliwanacraca]

Where else in your life will 20 hot female pledges line up in front of you in their underwear and you get to circle their fat with black magic marker?

And you're PROUD of this? Jesus fucking christ.

[The Scandinvans]

The fact that my college banned fraternities a few decades before I went there was one of its major selling points for me.

Same here. I've spoken to fratboy fuck-ups from other colleges, and I'm quite confident that I made the right decision. Fraternities are elitist, obnoxious, and largely populated by Neanderthals who's vocabulary is limited to monosyllables like, "bro," "fuck," "beer," "weed," and "tits."

The group I founded is elitist as only Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, and Danes can join.

[Aelosia]

So, if that is everything, I pass. I can look at a hot woman when I look into a pool of quiet water.

Im sad for you that you have missed the experience of dancing with glowing soapy women.

Dancing?

Lad, north of Mexico people can't truly dance, they just try to hop around like fish out of the water.

I have danced with people who really know how to dance, and who are truly hot, from 4 different continents. The fact the they were women, glowing, or soapy is inconsequential. Having been soapy myself, I cannot see the fun in dancing while soapy. Then again, I truly dance.

[H N Fiddlebottoms VIII]

I can look at a hot woman when I look into a pool of quiet water.

I was that way in high school. Of course, they eventually dragged the lake. Not that I should complain to much, the fish had already done a lot of damage anyway.

[Intestinal fluids]

Highlighter parties are always fun, never tried the bubblewrap one though.

Not bubble wrap a soap bubble machine making tons of white soapy bubbles filling the whole room.

We usually opted towards having the pledges go out and cut down some bamboo and get sand from a nearby golf course to fill our bar room up for a tiki theme.

We had a huge house and had almost 60 brothers living in house so our basement was huge and we had so much room and potential to do stuff and we had some really creative artsy brothers.

You guys actually did the circle the fat back in your day? That was a rumor back where I went but every sororstitute I dated claimed their chapter didn't do it. There was also the newspaper and porno rumor floating around, sororities are vicious.

My favorite was we had pledges first get securly blindfolded and made them take off shoes and socks so total bare feet. We are all drinking yelling and causing all sorts of chaos around them, we smash glass bottles on the walls and floor, then you have pledge step up on top of a cinderblock then smash more bottles etc and have pledge step off other side in bare feet and you have potato chips on floor and it crunches under their feet. Much fun.

(EDIT:Sorry i screwed up the quotes a bit but you get the idea)

[Aelosia]

I can look at a hot woman when I look into a pool of quiet water.

I was that way in high school. Of course, they eventually dragged the lake. Not that I should complain to much, the fish had already done a lot of damage anyway.

Thank you, you made my day.

[Parthenon]

Lad, north of Mexico people can't truly dance, they just try to hop around like fish out of the water.

Nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKzrQ1Re ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C0GzFJG ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNN ... annel_page

If a person is from the carolinas, or the south in general, and belongs to Greek Life the odds of them knowing how to shag dance is pretty much a given. Girls love dancing, guys love girls, it all goes hand in hand.

[Intestinal fluids]

And you're PROUD of this? Jesus fucking christ.

Of course. Everyone there was a legal consenting adult.

[Yootopia]

Lad, north of Mexico people can't truly dance, they just try to hop around like fish out of the water.

Nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKzrQ1Re ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C0GzFJG ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNN ... annel_page

If a person is from the carolinas, or the south in general, and belongs to Greek Life the odds of them knowing how to shag dance is pretty much a given. Girls love dancing, guys love girls, it all goes hand in hand.

LOL you dance like old people

[Concurria]

Rent a friend, join a frat.

In all seriousness though frats aren't that great at A&M. Best party crowd is the Bonfire group, and it's not like you would join a frat for academics (well, I wouldn't at least).

* Over 85% of the student leaders on some 730 campuses are involved in the Greek community.

Either because they pull in charismatic types, or, because Fraternity support allows one to climb the ranks more easily.

* All but eight U.S. Presidents have been fraternity men since 1825 when the first social fraternity was founded. Today, 76% of all U.S. Congressmen and Senators are Greek.

This is not something to be proud of, if you ask me.

* Of the nations 50 largest corporations, 43 are led by fraternity men and sorority women.

Again, not something to be proud of. I want to be run by capable people. Not members of the "Old Boys Club."

* Greeks raise over $7 million for charity every year.

Philanthropy is mandated.

* A U.S. Government study shows that over 70% of all those who join a fraternity/ sorority graduate, while under 50% of all non-fraternity/sorority persons graduate.

GPA requirements exist (at this school, at least). Furthermore: this statistics can be read two ways. Where I am—a large Research 1 University—delaying your education could actually be the sign that you did something productive for an additional semester/year.

* Students who join Greek organizations are more likely to return to school the following year.

Touche.

* 850,000 hours are annually volunteered by Greeks across the country.

See above.

* Approximately 85% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies belong to a fraternity or sorority.

Really scary when you really think about it.

[Parthenon]

Carolina Beach Music is probably the most romantic stuff going and shagging is the only way to dance to it.

[Aelosia]

Lad, north of Mexico people can't truly dance, they just try to hop around like fish out of the water.

Nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKzrQ1Re ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C0GzFJG ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJj0mNN ... annel_page

If a person is from the carolinas, or the south in general, and belongs to Greek Life the odds of them knowing how to shag dance is pretty much a given. Girls love dancing, guys love girls, it all goes hand in hand.

LOL you dance like old people

Thank you for highlighting it, I didn't want to look too...aggressive or anything.

But if the point is in dance, check something more sensual, perhaps.

[Yootopia]

Carolina Beach Music is probably the most romantic stuff going

Yeah it sounds and looks like something one would play in an old people's home.

and shagging is the only way to dance to it.

Obviously the US and UK differ on the correct meaning of "shagging".

[The South Islands]

Brah.

[Hydesland]

LOL you dance like old people

The third link is pretty impressive.

[Parthenon]

Carolina Beach Music is probably the most romantic stuff going

Yeah it sounds and looks like something one would play in an old people's home.

and shagging is the only way to dance to it.

Obviously the US and UK differ on the correct meaning of "shagging".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgkO7XGU ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kro-uzMgL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp8xtNXO_20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrgUsDc13xk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKVjzlv8 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q8z3QFt ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG4X4qa9vdE

[Vetalia]

Our school really isn't that big on the Greek system, so it's kind of irrelevant. Now, at my brother's university it's a lot different...I gotta admit, I'd probably be able to save a lot of money on alcohol if I joined one but the ones around here just aren't that big or interesting. The opposite is true in a lot of other places.