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Ruminations #14

By Aaron Karo

“Ruminations on Greek Life”
January 1999

-Rush has just drawn to a close here at Penn and thank God! If I have to spend one more night hanging out with a bunch of guys and no girls except a couple of skanky strippers, I think I’ll go crazy!

-Girl’s Rush is the most ridiculous thing of all, with all these nametags and scantron sheets where you have to bubble your choices in. So basically if you forgot a number two pencil that day, you get cut – how dumb is that?

-I think you can sum up Greek life this way: sororities are a bunch of girls who hate each other, organized to travel in herds and fight over frat boys. Fraternities are a bunch of guys who love each other, organized to get wasted faster and cheaper and hook up with sorority girls.