I legitimately don’t know what Fraternity is and why it’s normal in America and why these dudes are standing like this.

  • HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    A fraternity is a college club. Young men join them to make friends, party, and form connections that may help their careers down the line (the female version is known as a “sorority”). A “pledge” is a young man in college who wants to join the fraternity, and pledges often have to go through a period of hazing in order to be accepted as a full member. This sometimes results in abuse scandals, like what you see here.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        I was in one for a few months, but it was a new one with like 10 of us and the hazing was stealing crosses from the local KKK chapter so we could have a bonfire and drink beer.

        Overall not too bad, there were a couple of weird guys, but that was one of the only ethnically diverse ones on campus lol

        The pledge week was funny too, all the other ones had like a civil war era sword or some other legacy bullshit and these guys were just all laying around hungover with sunglasses on. When I asked them what their deal was they said “we like drinking and fucking with the local KKK”

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      One sorority made a girl drink water until she overdosed. The girl died. I thinknhazing might be illegal in some places but they still do it. It’s just a social club. In engineering school, you could get old tests for classes from a local frat house. We even had one professor that straight up told us to do that. I had a close friend in one, he is still my friend and was a really nice guy. Delta Chi was a nerd frat though, my other friend in Sigma Nu was wondering whybI would hang with Tue nerd frat guys.