re: This is the future for fraternities...

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I had no interest in buying friends either.

I got along just fine with no friends.

When one of my friemds who went to LSU would come back into town with his new frat buddies, I’d go out with them. They were all douches - every single one of them. So glad my son didn’t do the frat thing at LSU

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Everyone who talks like this is a total fricking loser in real life.

If you didn’t want to join a fraternity, cool, I was personally in one and I never clicked with most stereotypical rich, country club, private school fraternity people- most of my friends weren’t/aren’t Greek and they still loved going to the parties and didn’t have a weird animosity towards my Greek friends though.

Every single person that I’ve met who actively seemed to have an issue with the Greek system was an angry little dorky looking social reject who didn’t have the social skills to interact with people who were different than them, and generally were jealous over the fact that Greek guys got with much more attractive girls much more consistently than non-Greek guys. Everybody wants to get laid in college and the Greek system is the king of walking into a party and leaving 2 hours later with a girl that’s out of your league. Sorry that you missed out

Here’s a little tip for you: if you think that “every single person” of any demographic sucks, you’re probably the dickhead or the loser in that situation

Harrumph!

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people are waking up to the fact that they really don't have that much power over them

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Not sure about other universities, but LSU has a crazy amount of power over the Greek system.

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I've found the opposite. Some people need collectives, some people don't.

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Way to cut an extremely out of context quote out of a long post to prove a point. I personally fall into the group that doesn’t need collectives, but that doesn’t change the fact that I objectively had a much better college experience due to the Greek system in spite of the fact that I didn’t like a lot of the people I met there.

Again, specifically the people who have an obsession with trashing every single person in the Greek system are fricking weird. I’ve worked with people who I got along with reasonably well then never said another word to me after finding out I was in a frat. Those are the people I’m referring to, and they’re a very consistently loserish, insecure group of people.

Eons ago in my college days, I belonged to a frat. We had a pretty good group of guys, most were from out of state, we admitted the first black member on campus and a couple of guys I suspected of being gay, they didn't come out until decades later.

I still stay in touch with many of them, we try to get together for lunch or dinner every couple of years.

The truth is that frat members are by any account, the largest benefactors to LSU. As students, their conduct should be judged no differently than other students.

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The truth is that frat members are by any account, the largest benefactors to LSU

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Probably has less to do with them being in a frat and more to do with their backgrounds…

Same with the parties and getting laid. The frats don’t make that happen, money makes that happen

Agree.

Disassociated frats not on university property are the only way to avoid wokeness.