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08/25/2014 18:06

Subject: Any colleges you wouldn't allow your kid to go to?

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Anonymous wrote:Any of the military academies and any school that allows ROTC on campus. I say no to militarism.

And I would say the opposite but DC is not athletic enough to qualify for West Point, the other academies, etc. etc. I would be very proud to have my son graduate from any of the service Academies.

+1. Very well said.

+2. I have two boys in college on ROTC Scholarships. The Army is sending my oldest to medical school. He'll graduate with no student debt and a guaranteed job. He'll owe the Army six years, but I suspect he'll make it a career. The other is a sophomore engineering major. I am so proud of them.

...and my husband went to VMI. Be afraid, pp. We are everything that is wrong with this country.

We probably know each other IRL - signed, a Patriot

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08/25/2014 18:15

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Anonymous wrote:I would not release the 529 funds for Santa Cruz, Evergreen State, Oberlin or anywhere else they would likely go up in smoke.

UCSC has some great alum

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08/27/2014 15:50

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Anonymous wrote:To the Greek Life haters, I don't get it. If you hated it in college, fine. Great. I am sure you didn't join. But you are not your children. Can't they make their own decisions. Will you ban them from joining the Lions Club or The Women's Clubs or Rotary or any other benevolent organization. I am guessing that you are unaware that every greek organization has a mission and the "social" greek organizations all raise money for causes such as Komen for the Cure and The Children's Miracle Network.

So when I was in college, I spent part of most weekends at a Greek sponsored event that had the goal to raise money for the host sorority or fraternities philanthropy. What do you do for society that was so much better?

I love to volunteer but hate to do it alone. So I did volunteering in college via my greek organization and now through local philanthropic organizations. If you have a like-minded child, please fight your own prejudices and let him or her find a social network that at least makes giving back to society part of the deal.

Or don't. Ridicule it and make fun it with your kids while you all hang out and lament how nobody takes the time to volunteer.

Puh-lease. I volunteered in college and avoided the Greeks like the plague. All they stood for was drunken stupor, male chauvinism and meat markets. If you think you need greek life to volunteer you weren't looking near hard enough.

I was in a top tier sorority 20+ years ago (I guess I am still a member- ha) and I won't let my kids pledge either. I had excellent grades in high school but my college record was really tainted because my undergrad GPA was way lower than it should have been due to peer pressure to go out and party. My first year I think I had a 2.0. I honestly don't think that it did me any good except that I have a ton of "friends" on Facebook. However maybe if I hadn't pledged, I'd have 5 more real friends and 200 less fake ones. In my junior/senior year, I pulled away from the sorority and did much better (almost 4.0).

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08/27/2014 16:01

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Penn State or Virginia Tech. Who needs the baggage ?

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08/27/2014 16:07

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UMD. Too many crazy boosters.