Homosexual individual looks to join an organization. Finds he/she and the organization do not match. He/she looks at other organizations until they find the one that is right for them.

It is really as simple as that. If he/she is a good person and a good fit in an organization, whether or not they are gay/straight/whatever should be irrelevant. That's how it is and that is a message I did not see this article convey.

oh and ah bloo bloo hoo to anyone here who gets all pissy

It's an interest piece. As someone who lives in the District, it's always interesting to see how local University students and administration are dealing with today's social issues. With that being said, this is most certainly an "interest piece". I don't think they were solicited for some kind of extensive work that was based on them showing off and taking shots at other organizations. I think this was more aimed at showing that fraternal life has certainly taken a turn for the better, and GW is on the forefront of that movement.

I'm proud of GWU, and I think the fraternal system has been extremely progressive in their efforts to incorporate all students. Contributing negative comments on Beta's behalf because a reporter chose to write an article in her particular style is counter-productive to the efforts of the Greek system - scholarship, service, and friendship. I hope you can see that one organization that provides a positive message on behalf of the Greek community and the university is more of a positive externality, regardless of your social and Greek inclinations.

Cheers.

This is trash and I will be writing an additional letter to the editor demanding some sort of compensation for the time I wasted reading this slop and writing this response.

Thanks for highlighting greek life's commitment to intellectual excellence!

You're proving a point. It's not the point you think you're proving.

Except for Larry, who reminds me of the people the campus mobilized against in the fall of 1989 following the last time the NAMES Project Quilt was displayed in its entirety on the mall ... we were called pedophiles for being gay and the student community wouldn't stand for that or for the LGBT community being condemned to death from AIDS based on pure homophobia and hate. As we said at the time, people who think like this are threatened and tortured inside by sexual insecurity and, oddly, an inability to spell correctly.

Go Colonials!

Larry is one of the assholes I was speaking of. His parents failed him, and he doesn't even know it.

Larry is a stupid fucking breeder.

Offering an event entitled "Frat vs. Fraternity: Myths Debunked" will not attract anyone who isn't already interested in pledging a Fraternity and will never provide the opportunity for Beta to change the misguided perceptions and stereotypes of Greek Life possessed by many Freshmen who base their opinions off rumors and television. I believe Beta's strategy here is counterproductive to the rest of the Greek Community at GW. It would be nice if Beta could be more accepting of all diversity as it would provide them an opportunity to break down barriers and educate as many people as possible about tolerance, instead of just catering to those who "get it" and "weeding out" everyone else.

Newsflash: every--EVERY--fraternity at GW has gay brotehrs. They're treated just like everyone else because, for the most part, nobody cares.

I'm really not sure where Beta derives the authority to dismiss the standards by which every other fraternity judges potential new members, but it's pretty slanderous to summarily label the rest of Greek life as homophobic idiots without a blink. If you were to take a second, you'd realize that Greek life, in general, is one of the most diverse and tolerant communities on campus-- not because we try to be, but because that's just who we are.

Get off your high horse and realize that you're not knights in the struggle against intolerance, you're more like a bad plumber--creating a problem so that you can be the ones to "fix it."

Ugh.