Was Boy Wrong

Boy, Was I Wrong!
Where I can find soaring footballs, bro-fist-bumps, bimbos with the nice bodies, boisterous all night ragers with toxic amounts of drugs and alcohol till five in the morning, and ignorance beyond belief, I can find a frat house filled with the jerk-ish charm of Greek life’s loveliest brothers of a fraternity that has some unpronounceable Greek name. These pictures are similar to the ones depiction in most movies about the college life and are usually aimed towards high schoolers that are incoming college freshmen or college students who know about life on campus. Entering into school, I had this preconceived notion that all fraternities are like the ones traditionally depicted in movies about college. However, I am a sophomore
Inductive logic as mentioned in Kenton Brown’s English Composition class is a “Form of reasoning where we come to the conclusion about the group based on particular observation”. The observations I have made about Greek life are through watching movies like Neighbors or American Pie Presents: Beta House before entering into college. This had caused me to stereotype harshly my freshman year and allowed me to believe I was protecting myself from a group of immoral guys. The word immoral as defined by Webster’s Dictionary Online, “conflicting with generally or traditionally held moral principles” which may include doing drugs, drinking, hooking up, and such. However, since Fall semester of 2016 I have become friends with multiple fraternity brothers, two of them being Zach Beaudoin and Mark Monsegur who have proven the stereotype wrong on multiple occasions. For example, their participation with the fraternity in community service work like the creek clean up and fall sweep, and their individual personality
In contrast to the movie Neighbors, where Delta Psi Beta only did community service to buy off the neighborhood, Kappa Sigma considers the act of community service as valuable part of their fraternity. In addition, the fraternity finds the characteristics of fellowship (being a brother to one another), leadership (do right) and scholarship (each brother must maintain academic success with a 2.5 GPA) an important aspect of being part of their chapter. This is similar to the statement said in The Atlantic magazine article written by Caitlin Flanagan which says “[the] fraternity experience at its best constitutes an appeal to a young man’s better angels: through service, leadership training, and accountability for mistakes, a brother can learn the valuable lessons he will need to become ‘a better dad...a better ‘insert career here”(38-39). Many young men who are a part of fraternities leave with personal growth and life experience as they learn what being part of a larger community is. The two brothers I have chosen as examples are a clear representation of this