<p>gman11, do you know that there were members who were forced to go along with this, against their better judgement? (I’m too lazy to go back and read the depressing articles.) I think that by the time one is 18 to 22 years old, one should have developed enough spine to object and talk others into objecting too.</p>
<p>A decade or so ago, our family was invited to an annual 4th of July party in a wealthy suburb. The hostess wanted to do something memorable and fun and announced that she was going to have a “food fight” for the youngsters–with mashed potatoes etc. When I heard that I blurted out, without thinking, “My kids aren’t participating in that. There are hungry people in this world!” She cancelled the event, and a couple of other parents told me that they secretly had thought that the event was unseemly. Just so you know-- and so I don’t appear to be a moral exhibitionist, I do know that hungry people weren’t any less hungry because we didn’t have the food fight. I just didn’t want my kids to think that behaving like wealthy pigs was acceptable. </p>
<p>I know a number of college age women, because my daughter is a college sophomore. They are not in sororities, probably because they wanted to leave high schoolish behavior behind when they went to college. They are involved in various “do gooder” activities in and out of their college environments. I am proud of them for that. I have to believe that there are a great plenty of college women who would be loath to ridicule the homeless.</p>