Frat + hippy = what?

A lot of my friends are in a very stoner frat... They gave me a bid just because I hang out with them. I feel strange about joining a frat, but many in my class are good friends. Is anyone else in a frat? I feel like it is compromising my ideals to live in such an alcohol drenched pit, but my friends live there... I feel conflicted and I need to make up my mind please help!

 

better somewhere than nowhere?

u said they were stoners not alchoholics, why is the place alchohol drenched and not scorch marked

 

ack i hate frats and sororietys or however you spell that damn word. id rather have my own dorm room. but whatever floats your boat.

 

The words stoner and alcoholic are not mutually exclusive

 

Frat+Hippy=DMB fan

 

frat+hippie=yuppie in training, IMHO

and a side note, why is everyone so down on DMB fans? Good goddess people, lighten up

 

frippie?

 

It makes you a Fraternal Hippy. You are being labeled twice, back to back.

 

AAAHHHHHAAAHHHAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!! thats so true!!!

anyways, im not a big fan of frats either. my sisters college is really big with frats and sorrirites, indiana university. whenever i visit her, i just feel outta place, cuz it IS a dirty alcohol drenched pit haha, with a whole buncha sweaty dudes

 

there's a kinda "hippie frat" around here, but they'll still beat you over the head with a bottle and throw beer in your face if you won't show them your boobs. so....i'm not a big fan of any kind of frat. seems like even good people start to internalize the frat boy mentality as soon as they join. good kid i knew who joined this supposedly "hippie frat" turned into a complete asshole.

 

hey maybe we could not judge people for FIVE SECONDS and remember there are a lot of really cool, wonderful awesome people in fraternities and sororities.

i think you should do whatever feels right to you and not worry about what people will call you

 

^^^^^^^ As long as you fit into thier idea/definition of wonderful, cool, and awesome. Frats/sororities are fine if you live by the frat mentality, there is nothing particulary wrong about it.....the frat/sorority mentality is still a little judgemental though. You will never see the kid with the pocket protector, greasey hair, and zit ridden face, become a member of any worth while or popular frat/sorority. I, personally, didn't ever have any problems with the frat boys or sorority sisters when I went to college, but I can see how some peope can. I was a mingler, I could get along with anyone that was cool. I was lucky that way, but I had some friends that were brutally tortured by frat boys that thought it was funny to belittle other human beings for a laugh.

 

and as long as they fit into the idea/definition you have of them?

just because some aren't nice doesn't mean they all aren't. just like any other stereotyped group. judgement is judgement, and i don't participate in it, no matter what the situation.

 

Well I pledged... I go to a small 1,400 student school and I'm sure frats here are much diffrent than frats at big schools. The frat I'm in has a lot of jam band fans and its always nice to have good friends that will travel long distances to see good music. I guess I am happy about joining all in all. 4 of us went to a Yonder Mountian String Band show last friday and had a great time. Almost all of this kids from my school who actually had the motivation to go out and see good music were in frats here, I guess that makes me feel better about my choice. I also turned on two of my brothers after coppin some LSD at the show. We tripped all night long at a KOA campground in an old VW bus, crazy times! Now does that change all your opinions on your sterotypical frat boy? I'm no yuppie in training of whatever someone said, thats for damn sure! No real yuppie at any point in their lives would have dreads and go on crazy psychedelic road trips with friends.

 

If you are looking to experiment with homosexuality I've heard you can't do better than a frat.


Watch out for the hazing if you do join, a friend of mine was shot at with a bb gun as he and the other pledges had to set up a stage for a band at one of their parties. he later switched schools because he was doing too much blow.

I suppose SOME are OK at some schools, but the ones where I went to school were pretty bad.

My brother went to a college that had their own frats, he was in a theater/communications one that didn't seem as bad.

 

Ecactly what I was going to say!

 

this is no knock on you personally, but if you've never known any yuppies who used to grow their hair out crazy and dropped a ton of cid back in the day, you haven't known many yuppies. pretty much everyone i've known in a hippie frat ended up going pretty professional a few years after graduation. but yur life is what u make it...

good thinking joinin the frat, you had the right idea... if you're friends with alot of the guys in a frat, you might as well join, simply for the girls. cuz taking away all the stereotypes and generalizations, thats what a frat always is: a place to live where you will have to hang out the the same bunch of guys ALOT, and where the girls (whichever kinds of girls like yur frat) come to you instead of you going to them.

so if you already get along with the guys, why not join? everyone loves free pussy

 

mmm, just go for it

 

Whats wrong with a Dorm? You can still see your friends, and you only have to share space with one other person.

 

dorm, then get your own place, or share with a FEW roomates, not 40.

Be free, go to non-regulated house parties, date artsy girls, be able to dissappear.