On Fraternity

This is just a personal opinion that i wanted to air out from within me.  I can’t stand the thought that i just kept it inside – who knows in some ways there will be others who will be able to understand after reading this post.

Coming from SDA schools, all i know is that joining a fraternity is not allowed.  Lucky are you if not caught but if you are – then it will cost a year-long expulsion from the school.   And it is a rule that exempts no one because it is reflected clearly in the Student Handbook.  It’s a rule that if you are caught violating, even the highest paid lawyer in the country cannot exempt your from it.

I’ve never been recruited to any group.  But i know my brother is a member of one and my sis, too!  Lucky me am not recruited or else i would really say no.  Aside from hazing, i think fraternity is a strong organization of brotherhood or sisterhood.  It feels good to belong especially for late teens or young adults.  But somehow, before one enters into it, at least he has the clear understanding of what he is about to undertake.

Not long back, i saw some students who were  punished (not really expelled from school but only from the work program) because they have joined a fraternity.  My heart goes out to these students because  they never expected that joining the group will cost them their schooling.    Tears were shed.  Their hearts were broken.  These are students who have high hopes to finish an education in spite they can’t afford it financially.   Because of fraternity, they have lost their chance to continue schooling.  It is just my hope that they will be brave enough to come back after a year and continue schooling through the work program.

To those who felt that the school is so heartless to let these students out of the program, well, somehow they will be lightened if they think with an open mind.   It does not mean that one is very poor that if he or she violates a rule, will be exempted.  No! That should not be the case.

To those concerned students, i hope this is a lesson for them to learn.  Am just sorry that it is learned in a hard way.

To those who are recruiting, see to it that your recruits have a deep understanding (good and bad) of what they are about to undertake.