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Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:45 pm
by Water Pony
SMU-IFC Campaign for frat responsibly. An idea whose time has come?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcHmLF8 ... r_embedded

Candidly, several ideas here sound good, including getting to home games.

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Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:43 pm
by couch 'em
What a joke at SMU that is at 1:35 in light of recent events.

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:02 pm
by SMU Hockey 2010
That video made me want to de-affiliate. A bunch of buzz words and cutesy pictures with uplifting music? Is that actually supposed to do something for anyone?

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:06 pm
by PonyKai
It must be change you can believe in.

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:43 pm
by Dooby
I kept waiting for the punchline

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:06 pm
by fivemon
can anyone give a brief recap of the video, already been removed

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:26 pm
by smupony94
You don't call your country a c_unt do you? So don't call a fraternity a frat

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:08 am
by Samurai Stang
smupony94 wrote:You don't call your country a c_unt do you? So don't call a fraternity a frat


Can I call my empire Japan?

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:09 am
by Water Pony
smupony94 wrote:You don't call your country a c_unt do you? So don't call a fraternity a frat


I didn't call them a frat, that was the program name. Lighten up. I was in a fraternity, BTW, and I could suggest more responsibility on their/our part. Further, getting their butts into the stadium before kick-off and attending the games as a fraternity function vs. watching BCS schools on TV is not much to ask.

And, if brotherhood is the center piece, they shouldn't condone abusive or self-destructive behavior by brothers. Liberation from high school does not mean under grads can do whatever they feel like.

Hard to defend stupidity.

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:59 am
by smupony94
Water Pony wrote:
smupony94 wrote:You don't call your country a c_unt do you? So don't call a fraternity a frat


I didn't call them a frat, that was the program name. Lighten up. I was in a fraternity, BTW, and I could suggest more responsibility on their/our part. Further, getting their butts into the stadium before kick-off and attending the games as a fraternity function vs. watching BCS schools on TV is not much to ask.

And, if brotherhood is the center piece, they shouldn't condone abusive or self-destructive behavior by brothers. Liberation from high school does not mean under grads can do whatever they feel like.

Hard to defend stupidity.



I was totally kidding. I hated it when my brothers said that to me

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:31 pm
by NickSMU17
Frat

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:33 pm
by The Spaz
Already gone, like a fart in the wind...

Anybody have a recap?

Re: Frat Responsibly

PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:50 pm
by RednBlue11
SMU Hockey 2010 wrote:That video made me want to de-affiliate. A bunch of buzz words and cutesy pictures with uplifting music? Is that actually supposed to do something for anyone?



I guess we could have made a PR campaign with deep philosophical discussions of right and wrong and how act responsibly...but guess what, no one has pays attention to mundane messages, the idea is to draw people's attention with easy to remember positive slogans. I'm not suggesting that we need to be cheerleaders and show overblown fake pride in who we are, but how is visibly showing the good things we all do and attaching positive monikers to those images bad???

It doesn't matter if it does anything for you because it isn't for you...you're a part of the greek community, why do a PR campaign? because we need to affect the perception of us OUTSIDE of fraternity and sorority life at SMU, starting with the freshman. it's kind of sad to see the massive amount of apathy we have in the greek community leak on to the message boards too.

On the other side, the people who think this is BS are exactly the people we want to either educate or get rid of as a community because that highly visible minority is made up of the people we can blame completely for the bad perception we have and the absolutely insufferable treatment we have been receiving from the university.