Small colleges have greeks too; even small colleges few outside a hundred-mile radius have ever heard of, such as Rollins College in central Florida, not far from Orlando. Euphoniously named senior Graham Gilbert of the Rollins Sandspur ("The oldest college newspaper in Florida, founded 1894") has some sage words for the freshmen of today and the greek men of tomorrow: recruitment "should be a fun process."
Demonstrating truly exhaustive investigative journalism, he cites a few brothers from campus fraternities extolling the virtue of the greek system. An Alpha Tau Omega junior called fraternity events "a great way to meet good guys" (That's what she said), while a Chi Psi senior held that "Greek life is a good way to make friends not only for four years, but for life." Mr Gilbert heartily agrees, also bringing to bear a college administrator's views that brothers will be the "people attending your wedding and playing golf with you during retirement."
Mr Gilbert's article could normally be overlooked as typographical frippery but for some particularly odd idiosyncracies in his writing style. For one, the entire article is written in the second-person present tense, for example: "If you do receive and accept a bid, you will join your pledge class and the brothers of the organization..." It makes for an oddly immediate tone, as if Mr Gilbert is sitting across a dining hall table pouring forth his stream of earnest banalities. Also, he feels the need to record both the rank and year of every student mentioned in the article, referring to "a three year junior" and "a four year senior." While it may be important to identify that a student-athlete is a "true freshman" or "fifth-year senior," the same details seem irrelevant to your average voice on campus—and there seems no point at all in reaffirming that a junior has completed the expected three years of coursework.
Otherwise, frippery. Feel free to skip it, or take a look at it for a faintly out-of-body reading experience.
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