You had a football team? We didn't. Although we did have four fraternities with on-campus housing (each got half of a building; the other half was non-Greek). Out of the four that existed when I graduated, two were on probation where if any member was in violation of any school policy the on-campus chapter would be barred from existing for five years. They really shouldn't have pissed off Judicial multiple times in multiple semesters.Darth Wong wrote:At my university, we didn't have any prominent fraternities, and none with on-campus lodgings. Of course, we also didn't obsess over our sports team or pay the sports coaches far more money than the best-paid academic professors, nor did female students aspire to the cheerleading team as if it was a great honour. In fact, the football team was lucky to get anybody to watch their games besides their immediate friends and family, and the handful of off-campus fraternities had to run around asking guys in my class if we wanted to join. Most of us said no.
Of course, we actually considered ourselves a place of learning, rather than sports and drinking. Strange priorities we Canadians have, eh?
I'll admit we did pride ourselves on a few of our sports teams (primarily baseball, softball, and golf), but the overall GPA for our athletes was about the same as for non-athlete students. And drinking was technically banned on campus (and a couple students did get suspended for grossly and moronically violating the ban and law), but there was usually about one or two parties a week involving alcohol somewhere (although the smart ones went off-campus).