Misconceptions of Greek Life and Leveraging your College Network | Kamal Andrawis | TEDxCPP
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2017
- "Fraternities haze, murder, and disrupt the lives of young people," are frequent perceptions of Greek life. With the recent news headlines proclaiming the dangers of Greek life on college campuses, Kamal Andrawis shares his story of how being in a fraternity was fundamental to his professional success and personal growth.
Kamal Andrawis, 23 years old, is a recent alumnus of Cal Poly Pomona, class of 2016. He graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering and began his career with Northrop Grumman immediately following graduation. During his undergraduate studies, he was very involved in Greek life, becoming a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in Fall 2011. He served on their executive board for three years, serving as the chapter President in his Senior year. Kamal’s involvement on campus and in SAE is what led to the motivation for founding CollegePrints, a startup focused on providing the college community with custom-designed quality apparel at an affordable cost. Kamal is still involved with the fraternity, serving on the Province Council of the Southern California region. He insists on motivating young individuals to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams early on in their lives.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
He doesn't seem to understand WHY it boosted his career. Not because there was necessarily anything unique about leading a social fraternity as opposed to an internship that teaches similar skills and has a similar level of responsibility or even a leadership role in a non-Greek organization of similar caliber. It boosted his career because the kinds of people who dominate corporate life (read: mostly white, straight upper middle class males) are also the ones that just so happen to be dominant in fraternities as well.
This argument also presupposes that selection for top jobs in corporations is "meritocratic," which is utter nonsense. Connections play just as much a role if not more of a role in getting a job (especially high-level ones for which serious contenders are already overqualified) than measures of "merit" (internships, job experience, grades, test scores, interview ability, etc.) do.
The Greek System is a good thing but there definitely needs to be reform. I believe that Fraternities and Sororities should provide due waivers for people who make under a certain amount. Hazing needs to be stopped. People should join because they want to and feel like it’s for them. The problem is that certain people end up joining Greek life because of social pressure or because they feel that joining a fraternity or sorority is the only way to have a social life during college.
Reform? Good luck. It was the "reformed" fraternity of Beta Theta Pi at Penn State which had strict alcohol regulations, anti-hazing policies, and other restraints on the worst abuses of frats that took the life of Tim Piazza.
The only way to get serious reform is to threaten the system's viability by withdrawing financial support. That means supporting the "Abolish Greek Life" movement to get members to disaffiliate, alumni to cut off the spigot of donations and informal support, and getting potential new members to stop joining. Universities can try to impose reform but that risks the frats disaffiliating from the IFC and becoming independent like at Duke with the frats that comprise the newly formed Durham IFC group (they formed it after Duke ended frats' first dibs on housing and ended selective housing for freshmen and sophomores).
Rushing in the fall for ASU, if of course we have school?
Did you end up rushing?
Great video on a subject that is so commonly misconstrued. Phi Alpha brother!
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Weak.
6:49 Why does he act like nepotism (since frats use familial language) is a good thing?
3:56 Does he think that other nationwide college student organizations don't do this?
Fraternities are the perfect example of when privilege looks after privilege for privileges sake. Fraternities will help their members to succeed where others who are just as capable but did not have the fortune of joining a fraternity will be sidelined. This guy talks about the success he had where his membership was key to that, which simply allowed other people to not be successful because they are not part of the club. When powerful people get together to look after their own the net benefit to society is negative, not positive. It's always been the case, and always will be, but don't pretend it's anything but mutually exclusive benefit for the members and them only. Society in general is worse as a result.
elink1 that’s just like joining a country club or being part of a political party or being part of a company. Fraternity is just one avenue for people on campuses to network and build connections with older people to gain opportunities. Not that you cant do that On your own but being in a group helps leverage the difficulty of finding connections. You can do this in a basketball club or going to the gym. He didnt compare fraternity to being superior to any other club in any regards to that
Jasonsan, you are liar or adorably naive. :)
Envious much? BTW people who serve in exclusive clubs go on to benefit society way more than the envious who point fingers and of course would join if they could. There is exclusion everywhere in every advanced society and the only reason fraternities are considered horrific dens of privilege is because they're majority white and filled with masculine men of all backgrounds. This obviously female commenter shows her lecture on privilege is just envy disguised as social justice.
Sorry you didnt get a bid?
@@jasonsan10 sure, clubs do have value, social networks have some important functions, more connections can be a benefit to all society. E.g. the free market (of ideas, opportunities, etc), with more information/connections. But they also have the potential to become corrupt e.g. people conspiring to monopolise certain resources. E.g. Cartels/oligopolies that are parasitic to those free markets. It's the same with social structures, especially ones that often encourage exclusivity rather than just facilitating social connection. Connection=good for participants and society. Exclusion/exclusiveness=good for participants but parasitic for society.
Pure elitism. It keeps the the top at the top and the bottom at the bottom. Some people don’t understand privilege.
I don’t know where you get the idea the Greek system is an elitist institution. I come from an lower-middle class family that struggled many years (I even qualified for the maximum pell grant) and at my university, a lot of brothers and sisters share similar stories. Some even come from worse off backgrounds than me.
@@nathanr4633 stop the 🧢
bro just join a frat in college then 😂😂 its not hard to get into college and most of then have greek life.
So getting a good education is not enough, you got to join a Greek club and how knows what else.
Gotta stop speaking in broken sentences and know when to utilize pauses properly. A period every three words is brutal. Turned what should’ve been a 5 minute video into a 9 minute video. Very robotic.
Greek System = Covens