{"id":3912,"date":"2018-10-05T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:00:41","slug":"this-again-thinks-quiet-plurality-as-greek-life-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3912","title":{"rendered":"“This Again?” Thinks Quiet Plurality as Greek Life Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Joseph Krzyston<\/em><\/p>\n

It is that time of year again. People who couldn\u2019t find Greece on a map slap the letters of its alphabet on their chests and parade around campus. For some, it\u2019s a surely a meaningful exercise in friendship and personal growth. A study recently conducted by the University of my Ears and Eyes and Brain (very prestigious), however, has found that, for many, these throngs of people congregated on our various quads are baffling background noise.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a problem, and I\u2019m not opposed to it,\u201d said a source who is absolutely a real person and definitely not a rhetorical device constructed by the author to express his ideas in a different voice, \u201cbut it\u2019s just kind of odd. I find myself rounding the occasional corner, thinking happily of dove fields and trout streams, and what do I see but a massive bunch of people in shirts, standing around, maybe playing corn-hole, maybe conducting an elaborate sack race. It\u2019s not a big deal, but it is another peripheral thing I feel I ought to know something about. I\u2019m always asking my peers, only to find it\u2019s the fifteenth annual Rho Beta Phi No Better Guy Invitational Polo Tournament for the Cure or whatever the hell. It\u2019s hard to keep up with all this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d chimed another student, also real, \u201cit\u2019s a whole thing. It\u2019s kind of like having bad seats to a boxing match and not really caring about boxing in the first place. You know what <\/span>does<\/span><\/i> ruffle my feathers though? The people who aren\u2019t Greek but who are constantly rattling off about Greek life. It doesn\u2019t bother me when people join the organizations, but it does strike me as sad as all hell when people with no actual ties to the organizations talk nonstop about their stuff. It\u2019s kind of like people\u2019s lives are so devoid of meaningful stimuli that they\u2019re willing to fill the void with just about anything. Shucks, that was awfully heavy, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Our remarkably self-aware source is not alone, or maybe she more or less is. It\u2019s hard to know what anybody thinks about anything. That\u2019s sort of the tightrope walk of the human experience, isn\u2019t it? Just a constant push and pull between solipsism and egomaniacal projection. Still, only a quarter of the campus is involved in the stuff (a figure I\u2019ve taken from Wikipedia, I confess). When that is considered, it seems pretty clear that at least a few folks think the whole thing is just a little silly. I\u2019m not asking anybody to stop doing anything, but it would be nice if absolute indifference was something we could wear as proudly as some people wear their letters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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