re: Word on the street is ACACIA gone...

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except for maybe the Dekes, nobody really knew what kind of weird shite those pledges might have gone through

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The Deke stories were always the best.
-They all had to sleep with the house mom
-Throwing pledges off the roof
-Pledges disappearing

Any conversation involving frats at LSU always at one point always has "I heard the dekes made their pledges (insert completely insane made up story).

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Did anyone see TD featured prominently on WWL this morning as the initial source for this story?

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It's amazing what passes as credible sources these days.

Good thing WWL cropped out the WOWYHI thread right below this thread.

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Any conversation involving frats at LSU always at one point always has "I heard the dekes made their pledges (insert completely insane made up story).

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You are correct sir!

I heard so many ridiculous stories I never knew what to believe......On a side note I will never forget during rush going into that house. I was just curious and had no intentions of even trying to get a bid.

It was fricking creepy in there. It was dark and they just mainly stared at me without saying a word. I got the frick out of there as quickly as possible....

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It was dark and they just mainly stared at me without saying a word.

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Trying very hard to perpetuate the we don't give a frick and are crazy vibe.

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Since when do we punish/suspend BEFORE we figure out if anything actually happened?

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When you're dealing with fraternities. As soon as there's an allegation of any kind, the university and national chapter sever ties so that they lessen their exposure in the lawsuits that follow.

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My biggest con is that many frat guys isolate themselves to other greeks. College should be a time where you challenge yourself and form your own set of ideals. Diversity in who you are around affects you beliefs and attitudes.

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Yes, but in some cases you're dealing with guys who would've gone through college life in semi-isolation if not for their involvement with a fraternity. You'll have guys that make the frat their #1 priority and their entire college experience, you'll have others that have the frat as a part of their college experience, and you'll have the guys who were socially isolated to a degree in high school, but came out of their shell when they hit college and joined a frat.

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Yes, but in some cases you're dealing with guys who would've gone through college life in semi-isolation if not for their involvement with a fraternity

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I probably met over 200 new people though my fraternity (not counting people I met in other fraternities/sororities). My senior projects were done with people from my fraternity or other greek organizations I met over the years. I seriously doubt I could have met that many people that easily without it, even if I was a very outgoing person (I'm not). I originally got in because I had met quite a few people in that fraternity and it looked like a good time.....it grew from there.

And as far as doing screwed up stuff as a pledged, I saw WAY worse stuff happening in sports locker rooms in high school than what happened during pledging.

People have a screwed up idea of what hazing is. Like they think it's physical violence or homo-erotic crap. It's mostly mind games like if you don't memorize this, you aren't getting in. And as a pledge who spent 2 months cleaning up the house and doing chores for actives, it freaks you out that it could all be for nothing. Pushups and wall sits are probably the only physical thing that I've heard happening to pledges. And again, I've had to do way worse of that in high school sports.

You must've known some boring arse people then. Probably 2/3 of my friends were Greek, but all of us had fun and were extremely sociable. I was supposed to rush, but got arrested right when I moved to BR, and my funding ended there. I still had a shite ton of fun with all of my friends from all kinds of fraternities.

I grew up with probably 10 Dekes, and most of them were cool as hell before and after college. Only a couple were weird and gung ho about it, and you could tell by the black shirts they wore on occasion

I have also been a first hand witness to some Deke pledge shenanigans that were kinda bad, but not outrageous. Some was gross, some a little painful, but nothing that I would consider being reprimanded for. I also had a friend who quit because he couldn't budget his time. Yeah they were dicks to him afterwards, but IMHO it was justifiable since he dropped out 3/4 of the way through.

Other fraternities did much worse stuff that I knew about. Some barely did anything.


Only a few guys out of all the people I knew before college completely cut ties with their old friends and only hung out with their brothers. Very rare though

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And as a pledge who spent 2 months cleaning up the house and doing chores for actives,

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2 months?? What the frick. You didn't have to pledge for a full semester? shite, I was a spring pledge and pledged from January to August.

When did you have hell week? We always had it the week before classes started in January/August.....

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I'm just saying, that if you were doing something 2 months in, you didn't want to screw up. We did one semester and had Hell week at the end. I pledged in the fall and we were done before we went off for break.

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Gotcha. I remember hearing about some of the weaker fraternities having to only pledge for a short amount of time, just wondering if you were in in one of them and how that worked.

shite, I think the TKE's just automatically became actives if they get anybody to pledge.....(This was 20 years ago, I have no idea what TKE is like today or if they are even still around).