Greek Life Changing

Life Changing or Life Taking? In today’s society Greek life is looked upon as a harmful and detrimental thing in and around college campuses all throughout the United States; is this what they really are or is this just what others perceive them to be? Greek life is constantly receiving bad publicity in the media, “A string of ugly incidents has reinforced the image of entitled white men egging each other on to behave badly: chanting racist songs, sharing pictures of incapacitated women, hazing their pledges” so often times the majority of the population looks down on and frowns upon it (Berrett). Some may say it’s unhealthy due to hazing the members associated with it receive. Others say that if done right it can be an uplifting

When you hear about an event that’s taken place in and around a sorority or fraternity it’s never about the philanthropy work they do or the scholarships an individual has received, but about the harmful effects surrounding Greek life usually caused by hazing. The definition of hazing is the imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiation; usually when we think of hazing that’s exactly what comes to mind. We think of the older initiated brothers and sisters putting the pledges through gruesome obstacles to make them earn their place in the organization. Examples of this can be something as small as making the pledges call the older initiated members “ma’am” or “sir” or as large as making the pledges do harmful things to one

Each chapter has their own organization that they are devoted to giving their time and money to so that they can help better the community that they live in. President Eva Kirschbaum, a member of Epsilon Sigma Alpha said, “’Our main thing is sisterhood through service’” this is a very commendable thing and only someone who is truly interested in bettering the lives of others would be a part of an organization such as this (RSO: to Know). This is an aspect of Greek life that many are unaware of. A lot of people only see the news headlines when something has terribly gone wrong in the Greek community, not when they do something worthy of praise. “Since ESA (Epsilon Sigma Alpha) partnered with St. Jude, the teams have raised a total of $80,000”, anyone who reads that would be blown out of the water. That is an outstanding amount of money and the hard work that had to have gone into that is strenuous (RSO: to