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fcnagw of wild parties and drinking are common stereotypes
Do college dubspromote acceptance or elitism?
By lenrvKini and Adnahna Sopg
| WNK, 1MMMK. DPJNKT a group of 30 to 40 young
I males chants as a teenage boy chug* down a 40-outvx
Budwewcr.TenwMid*, thirty seconds, o»e minute!"
mob around him, and hears howls of approval. "Congratula
nora!" they ytfl. "Hfctfrr on* of us now."
When the first year of frflege it threatening for many high
school graduates, rraternitk* arid ethnic clubs provide students
withopportuni ties to sharecommon interests, develop life- Jong
friendships, and work together to benefit their communities.
However, some students find that fraternilies and sororities promote
elitism and superficiality.
Ethnic and common-interest dubs can provide a sense of be-,
longing and acceptance and alleviate :
Mimeofthciio'*tion of the first years
-atcofleocTmiy U. Utn^rmf^ss
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(USA) atUC-Davii> the VSAyou
n*«t many new friends who really
support you tXtroughyour u>He&i
Years.** he «id."U'almo« fell «* if;*\ve
VSA bcrjune my secend family.**
\l*ity pun socui groups because of
common religious bcltefc, IJkt Sonw
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pacewed in the movies." jT.yotherfiraientities*be
During pledge wceV.people whoarr uuerraed in fining A Ji»ipi$^urc,butth«cis*UHofdTinkingandpirtyingandstuft
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guys throughout pledge week, not on the phone or anything,"
1am Youngblood, a student at New College of California. Mid
"Also there was this woman whe was 4 cashr? and she was pledging
for a lorority and the sorority sisters made her gmr them
stuff for free, but she g»« wught and was arrcted. J
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thrir hands tied behind their backs. ITwy were told TI5 fish
throujdt Ul food with their tonguts to find hiilden Tic Tact to
assert their loyally to tbeir "brothers."
^1 tliink it's ridJculctu to have toprovryouridf to A bundi of
people you hardly know." Washington
High senior Molty Christie idid. "It
,wnw like they're saying that tfyou'rc
wUltng to degrade ynurvrli", we'il *c.-cjn
you."'
HoweCii.Gioviinni Singleion, ,i
nl>cr of tl>c CVIUt Si^iiu TiSt-w w-' 1
about God anil have run at uV' wine tin«.lhcj3rtple arc really V}xinyanbiJs.nuiwf
dnmanytliitfj'.st
;iiai) dub,
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thjfas iniiviriuals. "I think a lnt of traicmitia try to unity a
certain trthnu group and get others to apprd lite them, but I
think thry,Io tl»co(^>o^icbfCJU5c they vwraVttry.inKHw and
pwiplc aie -ilraid tc iipproach then." Om.tie Hid.
Pr^trnity ami sm>rity rtirr-iberv are (jftcn believed to be
shallow and fake "I rushed the Asian sororities bU" found that
I touldn't really i Jtntify v*-ith tiicn, J UC t^rkgky student Mary
Itr uiiii. "Dunnjs rush wrrV. the girfci arr supposed 1o be really
nkc in ('rdcr tt\ *itr*cx new iik-r.il>ers,but foi one of the sororilies,
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«rnurkd. bi it"ft I»rir face She seemed artificial—as if
jiv wa* putting; t»rt ;• sliyw." ' -:
\VbiU- ninnins Jiound cvnpus drrucd only in boxen U
mic'i loyally to a ftsltrnity nt iwirurity mey not
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and huinffiaiing event? as pzrt cf initiation,.: " "
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