Notify butan.
They look like they're going to bishslap the black man.
So my question here is
Why does the Greek community feel the need to justify itself in order to persuade people to go "Greek" (and we use the term "Greek" in the broadest possible sense) ?
Shouldn't the example of its members be enough to encourage others to join ?
For example, I am the President of the Muay Thai club at my college. We have not advertised the club in over a year in its 3 year life. We maintain a member intake of an average 40 people per semester (our mat room can hold 30 people comfortably) and have a retention rate of over 25 members every semester. We don't talk about the club, we don't advertise the club, if not for the fact people see us practicing in the corner building of campus, in the bowels of a residence hall and our members bringing it up in idle conversation with their friends, there is absolutely no advertising going on with the club.
TKD and Jujitsu spend a lot of money advertising the shit out of their clubs and maintain a retention rate of less than 10 people per semester, and they still come to Muay Thai asking us wtf we're doing to get such interest.
We regularly kick out douche wannabe fucks from the club who just want to get into fist fights. We're actually turning people away from the club because of the poor quality of human they represent. But still gain members every semester.
We don't justify ourselves, and don't pull any statistics to prove that we're greater than any other club. We just show up and represent a style martial art that we like to practice.
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Also, most of the people I know who drop out of college are associated in some way with the Greek Life.
Or they go to Fashion design. Seriously, how do you fail out of fashion design.
Muay Thai has pretty much blown up because of the success of MMA in America, Dex. I'd be willing to bet that the good majority of kids joining your class in the beginning don't even know the difference between the style that is Muay Thai and regular Kick Boxing. The promotion of MMA that has been brought about by the UFC has essentially put BJJ and Muay Thai on the map. Muay Thai is huge right now for the same reason Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes are huge and they have basically taken the place in society that Boxing and Karate/TKD have had in place for so long, they are easily the two most mainstream martial arts in the country now thanks to the UFC. I think it's a bit apples to oranges when comparing it to promoting the Greek life. . The Stigmas of being elitist, party hungry and shallow that usually is assumed to come with "fraternity". Such Stigmas don't really come with Muay Thai or BJJ or ANY Martial Art. However, while you may not promote or tout the superiority of your martial art, i've run into plenty of guys in their tapout/affliction shirts who have told me that their Muay Thai would crush my boxing/kickboxing style and won't shut up about how great Muay Thai and BJJ are over every other martial art. Every life style or mainstream social interest is going to have it's bad eggs.
Also, to be fair a vast majority of people drop out of college in the first few years in general. It's also fair to note that Greek life can be entirely different for the same fraternity depending on the state. For example, I seriously doubt Sitting Bull would identify with the elitist, self-promoting douchebags that make up NAU's Kappa Sigma house.
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