Kind Words
Dec17
on December 17, 2012
Chapter: Autumn 1911, Invitation to the Dance
Location: Delta Phi House, Miskatonic Campus
I was never tempted to join a fraternity in college. This strip explains why. I mean, there are other reasons, and I think fraternities must be not all bad, but the idea of asking for a hazing just never worked for me.
During my time in college I was asked to rush 5 fraternities a total of 7 times. I politely refused each time. I couldn’t stomach the racism and elitism.
I feel like there has to be something positive about fraternities, but I never saw it… except for service fraternities like APO. Mostly my experience of them was reading about another student carried off to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. Add racism and elitism to that and you get some really uncomfortable people to be around!
I found one positive thing… they function like a secret cult, which means natural parallels for Lovecraftian storytelling!
The shorter fellow must be Phineus’s great grandfather.