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I wouldn't go as far as disbanding all frats and sororities because many of them are academic and do wonderful community service. [/b] But the beer drinking, girl raping, belly bumping frats should have their chapters removed.  Georgia Tech just had a chapter revoked because of rape bait emails.[/quote]

Really?  Which ones?  I went to a college where there were frats and this was not something I noticed.  Plus, the bad seems to radically outweigh any possible good in this case.[/quote]Unfortunately, reputable greek fraternities and sororities are now lumped together.  Come on, just because they didn't exist at your school doesn't mean they don't exist.  Also, they aren't as big as the traditional fraternities.

These are primarily professional networking frat/soroities.  I had friends in Sigma Theta Tau and Sigma Phi Delta (NOT to be confused with Delta Sigma Phi), nursing and engineering.  I never heard or saw anything reprehensible though these were small, egghead (term used in the nicest way possible) houses.[/quote]

I am the pp you are responding to, and while I was in a "service fraternity" in college, I think that I and everyone else recognized that it wasn't a "real" fraternity.  It was more like a community service club.  And I wouldn't think that they professional frats you are talking about are "real" either.  I'm talking about the fraternities and sororities that are based on the more arbitrary and nebulous concepts of "brotherhood" and "sisterhood" but are really understood by everyone else at the school to mean "rich white kids who want to get drunk and party together."  And if only all they were doing was simply getting drunk and partying!  That would be fine, but obviously it's a lot worse than that.  And it seems to encourage a real objectification of women that was ridiculous.  I remember a friend explaining the sororities to me in colleges, there was one for the prettiest/hottest girls, less hot girls, "nice" (basically meaning not hot I guess) girls, etc.  I remember thinking "seriously?  It's 2007.  wtf?"  [/quote]

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