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Self Respect

I just found this while reading the Southern California Law Blog:

FIJI Faces Hazing Lawsuit

Before anyone smacks me - I KNOW that this is an exception not the rule and that not all greek houses do this. probably just a very small percentage these days and probably even fewer that do it on this scale. But JEEEEZZZZ. I think a house that pulls this kind of shit should NEVER be let back on campus and that the members responsible be held PERSONALLY accountable. But my real question is what personal issues are going on here that would cause an individual to go through ALL of that before just telling the the actives to piss off. Is joining that house really worth that kind of humiliation and abuse? A little self respect goes a long way and keeps ya out of some bad situations..

On Joy and Trauma

This morning while I was waiting for my shower water water to heat up I was leafing through a book I just bought called “A Patriot’s Handbook”. The book was put together by Caroline Kenedy and is an interesting collection of speeches, poems, and songs that represent interesting and important points in American History - everything from Dr. Martin Luthor King’s “I have a Dream” speech to excerpts from “The Grapes of Wrath” to the words to “Brother Can you Spare a Dime”. Leafing through this sparked my mind wandering to some of the important and memorable things that have happened in my life and the vivid memory I have of where I was and what I was doing when important things happened to me and around me.

(read on if you care/dare)
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