Fraternities and sororities

To join a sorority, the potential new members (PNMs) have to gain entrance into the organizations. The idea of gatekeepers is seen in sororities. This entrance revolves around the existing members give approval to the potential new members (Stuber 2011). While some sororities say that not everyone can fit into their sorority, they also claim to be diverse among themselves (Handler 1995). The process to gain entrance to a sorority is sorority recruitment, where the sororities allow new member to…

African American sorority women. Mr. Jacobwitzs claims that it was never his intention for his words to be interpreted as racial harassment words. “… I finally shouted. Shut up, you water buffalo… Then I heard one of them say they were looking for a party and I said, If you’re looking for a party, there’s a zoo a mile from here...” Jacobwitzs who was trying to write an English paper found that his hall was very noisy and he could not possibly concentrate with all the ruckus the sorority women…

When you join a sorority, you join a cult. As I sit here writing this in the house of the sorority I belong to, I feel as if I will be doing them an injustice by unveiling them in a negative light throughout this essay. Ancient sacrificial humans were not showered in monogrammed water bottles and bundles of candy when they were initiated into a group, but the process to become a so called “sorority girl” proved to show striking parallels with that of the age-old process to attach oneself to a…

It occurs because in some results when students are trying to fit to with others. Also being accepted by them. They’re outnumbered “ritual” that occur in schools across the world. Hazing occurs in athletics, high schools, in fraternities and sororities around the world. “hazing is any activity expected of someone joining or participating in an group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of an persons willingness to participate.” Students are risking themselves…

schools way of keeping the students involved with campus life. Fraternities and sororities were encouraged for both men and women. In the student handbook there is a section encouraging the students to join. They were thought to promote students to be social with others and to give them a support system. The men and women’s sections were written differently. For the men it seemed like it was assumed that they knew what how fraternities worked but for the women it was written in a way that…

Alcohol consumption on college campuses in the United States and its associated problems has been well documented in the past five decades. Data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2004) show that approximately one thousand four hundred college students die annually from excessive alcohol consumption while an additional five hundred thousand sustained all kinds of injuries. The data also revealed that 70,000 sexual assault cases that are reported by college students are…

philanthropy goes on the back burner. The main reasons why one joined the organization in the first place. Higher rates of alcohol consumption and binge drinking have been reported in Greek organizations than in non-Greek organizations. Males in fraternities do have a higher percentage in alcohol consumption along with smoking. Also one example could be finical status. The dues do not even total the whole cost. There are fines, expenses, and social money that have to be contributed by each…

Davis said. Two ISU students, Ra’Leshia Davis and Shaquille Lee, hosted the scroll-off. “I'm used to hosting sycamore sessions but it’s pretty much the same crowd,” Scroll-off host Shaquille Lee said. Fraternity members had to arrive at the auditorium…

solution to binge drinking. He believes that freshman college students often join sororities and fraternities to “make friends” and to “fit in” also that they would be willing to do anything. I strongly agree with Bruffee, if colleges created peer tutoring, team projects, or just had students sit together and work in groups it would decrease binge drinking and the number of students who join Greek sororities and fraternities because they would be making friends through better situations.…

discriminate in membership selection except by requiring good scholarship and ethical character. All chapters are expected to adhere to these documents. Kappa Kappa Gamma continues to seek members who: • Will further the mission and purpose of the Fraternity. • Have achieved academic success. • Have demonstrated good character. • Will enrich the life of the group. • Are responsible citizens and contributing members of their…