My Disillusioned Self

Looooonnnngggg Time

Wow! It has been way too fucking long since I wrote in this blog. I feel kind of bad **smacks self in face**. I will make it up to everyone! I swear I will! I don’t know how exactly but you will be rewarded? I’m currently living in the dorms on campus waiting to move in to the new ones that they promised us we would be in at the beginning of the semester. Those fucking liars! Well the next promised date was before October 15, 2005. Hey I guess we’ll see what happens.

I wrote a letter to the Vice President of Student life the other day about starting a fraternity on campus. This campus is a dry campus with out any social life what so ever. I look outside and it looks like people evacuated due to a biological attack scare. There is nooooo one outside on the weekends. I mean once in a while you might see someone running on the pavement trying to quickly get to their dorms so they don’t have to socialize with the evil evil people! But I digress, I wrote a letter to Vice President Weinberg as follows:

Vice President Weinberg,
I am writing you concerning the ability to start a fraternity on
Farmingdale State campus. I as well as other students, feel that the
clubs available on campus, while they do serve their respective
purposes, are not all inclusive of what the college experience should
be like. We feel that starting a fraternity would allow us to meet
the objectives of the college by teaching us about brotherly
friendship, academic scholarship, personal conduct, and financial
commitment. Not only will starting a fraternity teach us lifelong
lessons but, it also will instill a sense of pride when we graduate
and look back at out alma mater and realize everything that it allowed
us to experience. We would like to have the schools support on this
endeavor and any assistance that you would be able to give us would be
greatly appreciated. We hope you realize the wonderful opportunity
this would be for the student population as well as a great addition
to the university. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Justin X XXXXXXX
631-XXX-XXXX
xxxxxxx@XXXX.XXX

Ok so we all know the reason that I want to start a fraternity on campus. Yes, studying and brotherly love definitely is not one of them but I do think it will increase the student morale a bit and solve Farmingdale’s student retention problem. Also a fraternity is a great way to get students involved in campus life because most national fraternities mandate frat involvement at the school. Weinberg did reply rather fast considering the sensitive nature of the topic. I was a little disappointed with his reply:

Justin,

There are a myriad of issues and some problems around the notion of starting
a fraternity here at Farmingdale State. I’m not against anything, but I have
some experience-based concerns as does the College President, as well as the
Chancellor and the S.U.N.Y. system.

That said, I’d be glad to meet with you toward the end of this month to
explore the possibility. Call my office and we can set up a meeting for the
end of the last week or the first week in October as I will be in and out of
the office over the next two weeks speaking at conferences and attending
others.

Respectfully,

VP Stewart J. Weinberg

Yeah, I know, I got shaft. I’m going to go make an appointment with him anyway because Weinberg is a pretty cool guy. I know what my answer most likey is going to be but hey I can always promise the school no alcohol or wild parties on campus. I really do want the schools support on this issue because it would make life so much easier. If they don’t give us support though I will do this on my own and I will succeed. There are no if ands or buts about it, a fraternity will happen at farmingdale if it is recognized by the school or not.

I’m pretty much done for today **slaps myself again** but I promise to be good and type here at least 3 times a week if it kills me. I’m going to go see my girlfriend Maggie (yeah, the one that I keep getting back together with. I love here though so it’s all good) so writing will be a bit difficult, but, I will persevere and I will write here!