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Posted on August 23 at 11:19 p.m.Suggest removal
I'll start respecting the "Greek life" more when they start staying throughout entire football games. You guys are an embarrassment to our student body weekly on national TV. I think that with this national kind of exposure at being piss poor you can deal with a campus related article.
Besides, look at the people who started Twitter accounts @SoonerGDI and @OUDailyGDI. Obviously this article struck a nerve and some insecure people are lashing out from it all. It's pathetic, really.
I'd have more respect for people in the Greek society if they weren't all stereotypes of what the represent. "One or two..." in each Frat/Sorority? Bull. There's maybe "One or two..." that DON'T exemplify the stereotype. I've heard from so many many older members, mainly sororities, that they just are burnt out by the end and all of the prosthetic that go into it.
To the girl above that put on her so called "big girl panties" to tolerate bigotry, pettiness and small mindedness, do you really think that's the best course of action? Do you really think that isn't what your sorority ISN'T about? You just stood up for it despite knowing you disagreed with it. You're a sheep like the rest of them.
Posted on August 22 at 9:47 p.m.Suggest removal
And don't Greeks, in so many words, maliciously (forcefully) force their opinions on others for racketeering positions in student government and organizations?
Posted on August 22 at 9:46 p.m.Suggest removal
You know I'm really indifferent about the Greek life. Yeah, it's not for me. I have a lot of great friends that are Greek and a lot of great friends that aren't. There are stereotypes for both sides obviously. But for a Greek system that's so school spirited and muchtodo about campus, why are you the ones that need to be bribed to go to OU basketball? Or that rush to leave the stadium at halftime of any football game?
Some OU frat guy was talking ish to me and my friends after the BYU game in Arlington. We were just sitting around, sipping a beer and waiting for traffic to clear out. Unprovoked, these douches started talking crap. Fellow Sooners.
Don't get me wrong, like I said I'm indifferent. But I don't care for a lot of it because of responses like I've been reading. I'm sure there are a lot of great people in the Greek system, but when you have people getting in a tizzy because of one little article, because one person decided to speak out on a public platform, it's time all of a sudden to "UNITE AS ONE" for something that is a bull philanthropy event that costs more (I'm sure) than it probably raises.
It takes respect to get respect members of the Greek society. We haven't bought into these "secret societies" as someone called them (not so secret are they?) and so we don't have the same loyalty. We have not paid to be a part of a system. Is it a bad thing? No, not necessarily.
Claim connections and benefits; sure. I've secured a great network of people in my profession that I would've never met through the Greek system. I've advanced myself on my own more than some of you ever might.
In short, Laney; props for speaking your mind. You have people talking. The point, I feel, of journalism. And as you can see here, on Twitter, on Facebook and around campus you have a lot of people talking. Boom, roasted.
Posted on August 22 at 9:45 p.m.Suggest removal
Laney, props for writing this.
This isn't some libel piece or anything everyone's making it out to be. Her generalizations were brash and, sure, could be construed as hurtful or mean spirited. You know what? Everyone at OU thinks that though. Sure the AGD's won the President's Cup but it's probably because they're the most well-rounded group of them all (though I'm not refuting the claim because that's what everyone's been 'taught' when they get to OU.)
To the genius who wrote, "THIS IS A WEEK OLD" well yeah. The Daily doesn't run when school isn't in session.
I don't think anyone has anything to be embarrassed of concerning this article. It took some balls to write it and be honest, which Laney was. It took some balls as an editor to even publish it because of the presence of the Greek system at OU. How many of you guys only picked up the Daily today because of the gossip and hearing about this article? That created readers which undoubtedly will get some of you clowns to go back tomorrow to read the "apology" that won't be good enough.
What does Alpha Phi have to sue over? She didn't call them racist. She implied it, sure, but I think that absolves her of any liability. She didn't even say it, she asked someone (surely someone who know what was up) and reported what was said to her. Would you guys really be satisfied had she quoted someone there? Or more upset that she sold someone else out, so to speak?
Posted on March 22 at 3:02 p.m.Suggest removal
Quit crying around you pansy. I don't know of students who go to other colleges to use their resources they didn't pay for. It makes sense that a specialized college like Gaylord would have specialized privileges to use their computers.
Kaufman is a nice exception because everyone has to take a foreign language so it makes sense.
Posted on September 2 at 4:59 p.m.Suggest removal
Also, I just read the comment from deb05001 about people being able to "choose" their ethnicity.
Now if you could, deb, enlighten me how that works. Because even if she DOES have the blood quantum to qualify for roll in some tribe (I will assume it's a larger tribe with money and one that has low blood quantum levels to get in) then that, in a sense makes her "Native American." But does someone who was not brought up in the traditions and culture really qualify as such? Sam Bradford is, in a sense, native american but he admits himself that he was not brought up in the culture so he kind of disregards it because he doesn't want to seem like he's some big advocate for native americans or something.
There are plenty of people at OU that claim some kind of ethnicity or heritage before they came here so they could reap the benefits of scholarship monies and that's pretty dadgum low.
Posted on September 2 at 2:45 p.m.Suggest removal
I also want to bring to light that the column in question was removed from the website. Really classy, guys.
Posted on September 2 at 10 a.m.Suggest removal
I agree with what Luke said, Parking Services messed up and now they want to bring down the hammer? Not classy.
Posted on September 2 at 9:52 a.m.Suggest removal
Whoever edited this is awful. Utah played in those BCS games, not BYU.
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Posted on August 23 at 11:24 p.m.Suggest removal
It's also hilarious how every person that's involved in the Greek community has seemingly absent mindedly attacked Laney for this. Why is that? Why is that she's the one that's not independent and all of you others are?
Is it because she chose to branch out, find real friends (Side Note: If the person who said she should have talked to her "true friends" in Alpha Phi, obviously they weren't her true friends and all of you have a hard time accepting that you let one "get away," so to speak) and reached a higher level of involvement than many greek members are.
She decided to voice HER opinion. Not her SORORITIY's opinion or her FRATERNITY's opinion, because that's all the same. Instead, she decided to think for herself and be herself and I think that's what most Greeks have an issue with. That she got out. That she's out of the so-called "Matrix" of Greek life. She took the red pill and you guys all took the blue.
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