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[quote=Anonymous]I was in a fraternity back in the early 90s at Miami (OH) and honestly got a lot out of it. My wife lovingly says I was in a "loser frat," and there's a fair amount of truth to that. We were a new chapter and didn't have the best athletes or most handsome guys. The sororities weren't lining up to have events with us.

Even so, the "brotherhood" aspects were real. We ended up being a close-knit group of friends and a lot of us still keep in touch and do things together. You can get this kind of thing in places other than Greek life, but I'm not sure how accessible this kind of friend group would have been to me when I was in college. For example, my son is now in college and gets every bit of the camaraderie I did through his participation in the college band. But I didn't play an instrument, so that particular route wasn't open to me.

Our national fraternity was explicitly anti-hazing and because we were a new chapter, we followed that. The worst my "hazing" got was that I had to Xerox the bottoms of my feet and get 10 random girls to sign the paper. I had friends from my dorm who joined fraternities where the hazing was a lot more challenging. It mainly involved drinking, sleep deprivation, and doing chores around the fraternity house. None of it sounded anywhere close to lethal, but I can see how it could get out of hand if nudged a little bit. [/quote]

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