Comments on: Thursdays are Fucking Mandatory

By: Weed

Weed — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:19:00 +0000

It sounds like you are the problem, not the people you were pledging with and to. I have friends who joined sororities and went through the pledging process, and when they were sick they told their pledge master and stayed in. If you didn’t have the respect for your sisters to confidently say you were sick, then maybe that is the problem. Accountability is the only way that an organization of peers can run, and maybe if you stepped away from the self-absorption that you clearly display in your article, you would see why your pledge master and the other girls did what they did to you. You didn’t want girls to look the other way when you walked by? Maybe you should’ve worked on earning their respect and contributing your part to the house and your fellow sisters as opposed to bitching every time someone told you to do something you didn’t want to do. Maybe you should have been in it for the potential friendships and experiences you could share, not the chef or the rides or the assurance that some prettier girl wouldn’t steal your man at a party.

The point of the pledging process is to establish unity and accountability, to put in your time, to earn the respect of the older members and the PC members, and to weed out spoiled brats like you.

By: Peter Green

Peter Green — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:41:29 +0000

Thanks for this article. It was refreshingly honest. While I trust that not all sororities are as bad as the one you pledged, and I acknowledge the legitimate positive experiences of some, such as ‘over you’ above, I think that, in general, the LU Greek system perpetuates false brotherhood, and false sisterhood. The theoretical concept of a fraternity is appealing to me, but its practical manifestations at Lehigh are discouraging at the least.

Where is the Greek system in which members challenged each other to greater academic excellence, moral formation, and social service instead of pressuring each other into degenerative hedonism and narcissistic self-indulgence?

Some of LU’s sororities and fraternities incorporate some positive aspects, but a great many of them do not.

By: over you

over you — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:45:01 +0000

This is absurd. Obviously, you are one of those people who chose a house for their reputation or because your friends liked it.
First off, you obviously have a flawed sense of going out. This may be Lehigh, but not everyone goes out and gets smashed every night. There have been many nights when I have gone out and stayed sober for the night. If you assume that going out entails getting drunk out of your mind then you apparently have absolutely no idea how to interact with others and must be an extremely socially awkward individual.
I chose my house because I actually do not feel like I need to abandon my morals when i’m with my sisters. When I say sisters, I mean I would fight to my death to stand up for them. They are part of my family. Yes, I said it; they are family. Families love and care for one another. No they may not be perfect. Who is? I pity you that you truly could not get from your ex-house what I have received from my sisters in my 4 years here at Lehigh. These ladies have been there for me through thick and thin. They have helped me from things as small as boy drama to more serious issues when I found out that I had cancer.
So for those of you who like to trash Greek life and say that we buy our friends, I have just one point to make to you. They were the best investment, I could have ever made in my life.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:19:50 +0000

You probably should not be including GPAs for a sorority that follows a completely different intake process from the rest of the mainstream organizations at Lehigh. Not only does Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. not participate in the annual rush/pledging process, but they also only have three active members to contribute to the chapter average.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:52:30 +0000

The entire Greek system is not as you described. Obviously there are houses which fit your stereotype (or it wouldn’t be a stereotype), but you should not be trashing the whole system just because of your personal feelings on Thursday night pledging.