Fraternaties

I can't read this whole article - 10 pages long, but it seems somewhat interesting. It talks about the negative effects of the crackdown on fraternity drinking.

My suspicion - no one is really going to stand up strong in favor of frats. They benefitted from a long time of most people not caring enough one way or the other what they were up to. They were funny institutions who threw parties. Nowadays, too many view them as evil, exclusive bastions of male testosterone. They all of sudden became threatening to some. You can't really justify a need for fraternities, but their opponents can justify a reason for not having them.

I wasn't in a fraternity, but I was on a college sports team which had initiations and many of the bonding type of events a fraternity had. They were stupid and irresponsible. But they were memorable, which is a lot more than I can say for any events thrown by any politically correct organization....imagine that. Politically correct and fun - it doesn't seem to go together, now, does it.