Cpw - a parent's nightmare! Please help

collegealum314
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:09:42 +0000

Freshmen who choose to live with their fraternity (and spend a lot of time on it), pre-FOC, could do so if they wished. Nowadays, freshmen cannot choose to live with their fraternity. I still don’t understand how you see this as more choice.



Yes, they could live in their frats as soon as they step on campus if they chose to join one. But they couldn’t live in a dorm for one year and then join a frat. Or they couldn’t join a frat when they got on campus and live in a dorm while they were pledging. It was not possible.

They have a choice of 36 frats, but in reality, 2 days is not enough time to visit the ones you might like. In order to get a bid, you’re going to have to spend like one day with a whole frat. So at most you can get a couple of bids, and you can’t visit a whole lot and meet people before you have to start investing time there to try to get a bid.

If freshmen were given a choice, “Would you like to have a month to choose a fraternity or 2 days?”, I would guess they would choose a month. But they didn’t have this choice, because the upperclassmen were given freedom on how they want to run the fraternities. Either the upperclassmen or the freshmen get freedom of choices, but not both.