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Ikewin Udengwu
English 113B
Professor Spitter-Lawson
29 February, 2016
Project Web Rough Draft
Word Count:1,384
Going Greek
Students just entering college and heard all these wonderful things about what greek life
has to offer. Greek Life is an organization for both male and female. For males the organization
is called Fraternity also known as frats and for ladies its called sorority. They are both a brother
and sisterhood to their members. To join these groups you must go to their gatherings then must
be invited back for the last meeting. If you are invited back you get to decided whether or not
you want to join. Ill give reasons why greek life might be the worst life for you and your fellow
peers. Joining a Fraternity or Sorority glamorize because of their parties, their girls and
networking that comes along with being a member. Greek Life has done its member more harm
then good by causing more stress, mental and physical harm, and finally bring down grades and
classroom performance.
Stress is nothing anyone wants to go through or have to deal with. When joining these
organization such as Greek Life thats exactly what youll bring upon yourself. Stress can vary
from finances to maintaining relationship to worrying about getting into trouble. Most fraternity
and sorority have annual fees, which pay for numerous things like events, memorabilia, and
dues to the national organization. Fees will range in amount and frequency. The cost of joining a
fraternity or sorority vary, there isn't no set prices. For sororities start with a $45 recruitment

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fee. After that you have to pay an average of $657 in first semester dues. Once again these
prices can vary depending on you're greek sign. With the first due you also have a $195
invitation fee for that semester also. These only the first steps of payment, by the end of the year
you'll have to pay at least $3,000 or more on top of school fees.
The obligations as a student, and additionally a Greek member or leader, can prompt
anxiety. At the point when anxiety goes untreated, it can develop into uneasiness, panic attacks
and health issues. Nervousness can be experienced by means of fits of anxiety, impulses, or
hustling musings. In the event that you are encountering any manifestations like these that are
meddling with your day by day life and even your connections, the time has come to get help as
soon as possible.
Mental and Physical harm can change you character, who you are and how you see
yourself. Not being able to think for yourself, peer pressure into things that go against your
morals and feeling that youre not accepted all fall under the same nature. Nobody should be
forced to do anything they do not choose to do on their own, joining a frat or sorority will make
you do these things. Whether you like it or not these make be the only way of you joining the
group you so dearly want.
In the article "Greek Life on Campus" written by Jane Friedman talks about how students
are effected by the Greek Life organization on campus. Also asking the question "should college
ban fraternities and sororities?" This article was created less than a year ago in 2015 shows
numerous events where these Greek Life organization has done more harm then good to their
fellow members. Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse
or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group. One of five members of the Pi
Delta Fraternities are facing third degree murder charges in connection of a 19 year old recruited

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hazing death in Pennsylvania. Throughout this article valid reason why organization such as
Greek Life is not needed and conflict harm onto a student trying to join school-wise and
physically and mentally.
Hazing in a way is like having a bully come up and tell you that you will be bullied for a
month or two then after well be the best of friends. That is how the hazing that fraternities and
sororities make it seem like. More than 250k students experience hazing every year. Hazing
can be numerous of things from large number of foods or drinks consuming in a short period of
time, public humiliation, physical or sexual harm. The list can go on, according to Seeker Daily,
a youtube channel a victim of hazing came forward to share her experience. Revival Segal
explained after a night she had bruises and cuts all over her body. Also noticing two of my
teeth were broken. There has been many different accounts where students have been killed
because of hazing that date back all the way to 1838. Franklin Seminary was killed in 1838
according to family due to hazing. The frequency of hazing takes place 6 out of 10 people.
Grades count, from the time we entered high school is the moment our performance in
class determined what college will accept you. While in college your grades will also determined
what job will hire you. Greek Life is very time consuming, needy and help drive your focus
away from what is important. I interviewed a former Tri Sigma sorority member, freshmen,
Veronica N., and asked her to shed some info about the effects her sorority had on her grades
and others. Right off the bat she began to say if you have a problem maintaining school work or
hanging out then the fraternity or sorority life is not for you. Although she was able to maintain
her grades she found it very difficult to balance all the activities she had to do with her
organization. When asked what was the most demanding part of it, she said it had to be the
partying and preparing for events when she had a midterm or an important exam coming up.

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Also what made things even harder she was a recruit so she was constantly asked to do numerous
things that either caused her to get no sleep because she had to stay up until 3-4 in the
morning. She also included that even though her sorority made them have study hour no one
hardly ever study. She expressed study hour became a social gathering. Veronica terminated
herself from Tri Sigma at the beginning of fall after one quarter of pledging and being initiated.
The reason of her terminating her self she stated that the girls were to judgmental, that they all
would talk shit about one another and it never quite felt like a sisterhood. She has also seen
one of her closes friends that she went through the process with fail almost all her classes and
barely getting accepted to come back to the next quarter, she is also a freshman.
Sorority and Fraternity weight a lot on us through our journey of adulthood and the
process of college. Yes, life is not easy and no one ever said it would be but why make things
harder. These organization inflict more damages then we already need. Greek Life has done its
member more harm then good by causing more stress, mental and physical harm, and finally
bring down grades and classroom performance. Giving us stress when life is already doing that.
Physically and Mentally ruining the way we think by inflicting pain and trying to brainwash us.
Ultimately bringing down our grades when the mean the most to our futures.Yes there may be
some pros on why you should join a fraternity or sorority but the bad outweighs the good. Greek
Life is not the best life but most likely the worst life for college students.

Work Cited
Ferris, Sarah. "A Deeper Look at the Costs of Greek Life - The GW Hatchet." The GW Hatchet
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Deeper Look at the Costs of Greek Life Comments. Greek Guide, 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 19
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Friedman, Jane. "Greek Life on Campus." CQ Researcher by CQ Press. California State
University of Northridge, 20 Nov. 2015. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
Nuwer, Hank. "Hazing Deaths." Hank Nuwer. N.p., 08 Feb. 2016. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.
"University of Houston." What Is Greek Life? University of Houston, 24 Oct. 2015. Web. 19
Feb. 2016.
Writter, Mathew. "Pros and Cons of Being in a Fraternity or Sorority." Pros and Cons of Being in
a Fraternity or Sorority. N.p., 15 June 2015. Web. 25 Feb. 2016.