Frat War Trend: From Rumble to Bombing!

I've read an article by PinoyApache and it goes like this. "Being associated with a fraternity or sorority was considered vogue and brings with it prestige, popularity, pride and a sense of belongingness. During those times, the fraternity and sorority organization only recruited those whom they feel would become a good asset to their organization.

So it is common for them to get only the best student and the brightest scholar, the most popular coed or the strongest athlete and the richest guy or the most influential brat. Fraternities and sororities are known to support each other in their scholastic pursuits and even beyond it like landing a job position or being promoted to choice seats of authority."

But. look at what's happening now. Fratmen should know this. Rumble in 1990s, Gun-shooting in 2000s and now 2010, bombing? What's next?

"The strong shall live, the weak shall die...", one fratman said. He seemed to sound like Shishiyo and his equally-evil sidekick, Houji. These fictional characters during the Meiji Era of Japan are what we call the disease.

In my opinion, frats here are a sad caricature of frats in the U.S. But even there they don't have a very good reputation. Difference is when someone dies due to hazing (most of the time due to alcohol poisoning, rather than getting beaten up) there's immediate action by the police, the school and their government. The opposite happens here, you even have a Vice President coming to the defense of a murder suspect, and his only basis is that he looked into his eyes and was convinced of his innocence. What a joke our country is with people like this. Until we become mature enough as a people to have fraternities they should simply be banned. I guarantee you nobody will miss them save for the power hungry leaders of these gangs. There are many countries in the world that don't have fraternities and they are doing just fine. By the way, Harvard, one of the best schools in the world, doesn't have fraternities. In their view, students should feel a fraternity with their fellow students, so Harvard students help other Harvard students. Fraternities just split campuses, so their loyalty is no longer to their fellow schoolmates but to their fraternities many of whom don't even go to the same school. 

The best thing fraternities can do is make changes to their respective systems. Why are non-college students being recruited? Why are officers not paying any attention to academic merit? Why must hazing involve physical harm? The fraternity I joined hazed neophytes -- and frankly I see nothing wrong with it granted that it doesn't really hurt anyone -- but it was a fun (not to mention dumb really) experience. Yes pledges were humiliated and "challenged" mentally, but we never beat a person within an inch to his life.

The very fact that violent incidents take place is a clear indication that something is wrong with the members or structure of some fraternities in the PI.