Fraternities and Sororities do hold a large part in drinking on campus but that is not what greek life is all about. Greek life is a major part of campus and people don’t join it just for the parties and drinking. It is a brotherhood that you can’t find anywhere else. It allows you to make life long friends and causes someone to grow as a person. Fraternities do attract high school seniors as well as entering freshman but not so that they can drink.
Reformation of NCAA Policies Living the life of a highly recruited high school athlete is completely different than the life lived by the average teenager. It entails dealing with the connections of multiple university coaches, constantly perfecting the craft of their perspective sport, and finally making that decision to one of the intriguing offers from the multitude of offers received from various colleges. The whole reasoning behind these college coaches to giving out these offers to the high school students is to keep the money rolling in from collegiate sports. Despite all of the revenue that comes from collegiate sports, none of that is ever returned back to the young people who make all of this money. Currently the NCAA policy states
Before the NBA players had to wear suits before a game and the NBA enforced the rule that you had to do a year in college before you got drafted, the athletes of high school and college were getting a free ride. Teachers looked past their academic ability and let them slide because of their athletic ability. This is the same thing in Malik case until he meets is political science teacher, played by Laurence fishbone, Professor Phipps and Fudge. Even though, they have different views of the world, fudge and the professor teach Malik about being a black athlete and a black student, in different ways. Fudge, although he has been there for six years and is considered a professional student(MSN Movies
A scholarship can be a major financial package, and plenty of your average college students would be more than happy to take the tuition and actually pursue their studies” (Pheifer, 2012). That may be true, but these athletes don’t stay at college long enough to earn a scholarship. In basketball most players (at least the good ones) stick it out for merely a year, while most football players (again, the good ones) leave after four years. You call this compensation? I think not.
Mr. Bing and Mr. Gellar were roommates in college and argued quite frequently. Several of the arguments between the men turned into fist fights resulting in injuries. Both Mr. Bing and Mr. Gellar would generally suffer swollen knuckles and bloodied noses and on one occasion Mr. Bing suffered a black eye. Mr. Bing would usually stop the fights before anyone got seriously injured. He would plead with Mr. Gellar to stop and would continually apologize to him.
The most common aggressive acts of hazing include breaking into the pledge’s room and beating them, forcing the pledge to stand outside in the cold without any clothes on, forcing the pledge to steal from rival sororities or fraternities, and, in some cases, even forcing the pledge to have sex with anyone the pledge leader so commands. The acts of hazing actually began in 1657 when Harvard University officials fined some upperclassmen for freshmen hazing. During that time, many college presidents encouraged hazing as they saw it as a way to teach precedence, build school loyalty, and assimilate students from all economic classes (Nuwer 10). In the early 1980’s and 1990’s, the popularity of hazing raised substantially which resulted in fraternities
In his article Wright looks down upon sororities because of their alcohol consumption, however, this is flawed since he fails to look at student bodies as a whole. He ends his article with a flash to the Reggaefest hosted by Sigma Kappa which is considering “the last big blowout of the year before exams and the farewell of another graduation class.” (557) In his articled Wright wheedles the audience to look down on the drinking behaviors of the intoxicated students at the party. What Wright fails to do is share to the audience that other students outside of the Greek system are partying and drinking for the same reasons as the students in the Greek system are. College students have access to alcohol in some way or another. If students want to have alcohol they will always find some way to get that alcohol.
The next night it got a little bigger and a little bit more boisterous, the same protesting demonstrations were going on for the most part and there were a few more arrests then the previous night. The National Guard was now there and they even tried using tear gas to clear out the students. The next day was when the government and rest of Kent officials began getting really angry. The governor of Kent called the protests “un-American” and openly expressed his anger with the protesting. They made it clear that night that they were intent on putting an end to the protesting as soon as possible.
I witnessed and endured a lot of things that most non-native children probably had not been through. I saw the persons go to prison, and the peoples die from complications due to alcoholism. The children in grade school now drink, do drug, and go to jail. Some people have dropped out of school. The shock of seeing the people who should have a good future being sucked in to the vicious cycle of reservation life is close to unbearable, but it is the norm in this area.
Nina Cortez English 1301.103WE Professor Remonillo 2 July 2013 Will it remain or be changed? Hazing has become a huge epidemic in college campuses across the country. When students join these fraternities and sororities they do not know what they are getting themselves into. There are hundreds of different activities for students to choose from when they are in college, whether it is being on the swimming team at the recreational center, being on the yearbook staff or being involved in a student run organization. Being in college does not necessarily mean that you have to be involved in Greek Life.