Frat houses and hazing

Kimahri

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That's far more prevalent these days than the IFC will actually admit. Most are better at hiding it than this though. My days as an active were less than the best days of my life. My home chapter treated me poorly because I was black and gay. Nothing too stupid happened as I was friends with a lot of the brothers in the Pan Hellenic (black) fraternities. Even though I was an athlete, which is what they were going for, my ethnicity and sexual orientation were put offs.

Interestingly enough, my visits to other schools where we had a presence was extremely different. I was welcomed like an old friend in all the other schools. I went to VA Tech once and I'm not uncomfortable being the only black guy as I have a ton of white friends. I was chatting with two girls and some dude comes over and starts asking me these odd questions. Basically, he was trying to see what a black guy was doing there. I swear that's the last thing I consider. I usually think the dude is being a jerk, not racist. But he was. One of the girls told one of my brothers how this dude was acting. Next thing I know, 4 brothers are escorting him out of the party.

Come think of it, some of my better dates were the result of my brothers at other schools.

Although hazing wasn't something I had to worry about. Prior to going to college, I was a street kid and gave a lot of non-verbal "don't even think about it".
 

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I was just discussing this at a party recently because of recent events like this reported on the news. I was in a fraternity and it was fun and upbeat good times and nothing like what is being recounted now so it's a stark reminder sadly of how times and people have changed since I was in school. http://www.lpsg.com/153082-greek-life.html

The Creed of Alpha Tau Omega

To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics, but morals; to foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever found; to have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation of man than the outlines of the world: these were the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.

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