WHY CAN'T THEY?
Other Half and i watched SOCO on abs-cbn two nights ago, which featured the lenny villa case...
i was forced to watch it. maybe my husband wanted to experience schadenfreude even just for a wee bit.
Arthur Schopenhauer puts it succintly: Neid zu fühlen ist menschlich, Schadenfreude zu genießen teuflisch: ("To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.")
because he's from that other whatever. hehe.
anyway, UP would not be experiencing a lot of frat-related deaths if it had a system similar to that of Ateneo Law's SOP response: if involved, preventive suspension agad. if legally implicated or whatever you call it, then automatic expulsion. sabi ni Other Half madami na naki-kick-out daw sa ateneo dahil sa gulo sa frat. nakakatawa nga lang kasi dadalwa na nga lang sila sa ateneo ang gulo-gulo pa nila. hehehe.
bakit hindi nila masuspend agad ang mga sigma wrong -- este sigma rho? and tha gall of those ipis, sila pa ang magsasampa ng kaso sa UP! ang kakapal ng mukha! pwe!
buti na lang salonga decided to resign from sigma rho. kasama kasi siya sa recruitment materials/pitch ng sigma rho kasi. sabi ng iba sa peyups self-serving daw or something as bad as that pero sa akin ok yun. why tolerate it when ayaw nilang lumabas para masolve na ito. kung wala silang kasalanan, eh di lumabas sila para malinis nila pangalan nila. pero rereklamo nila kasi trial by publicity daw blah blah blah (the defense of those people backed into a corner) eh kaso nga nagmumukha nga sila lalong guilty dahil nagtatago pa sila.
so anyway, pinakita sa SOCO na nasuspend agad yung mga aquila legis members na kasma sa finals na bumanat. and good for lenny (at some point) dahil kumanta yung mga supposedly batchmates niya kaya nasampahan agad ng kaso.
masama nga lang nabaligtad sa court of appeals ang kaso.
sabi ni Other Half, strings were pulled. everybody knew that. isipin mo, ag daming witnesses. the evidence were strong. pano maabswelto yung mga yun?
kahit na ano pang sabihin ni bikoy, fraternity realationships go beyond schools and hi-hellos outside.
he said:
"Let me address one of the issues some of your questions raise. This mafia, job secutiry, social prestige allegations are really passe...
...In other words, this idea of super exclusivity has really been so abused...
...Don’t tell me you have a problem when brods help each other in times of need in their individual capacity. True, that may be considered a fraternal advantage. But don’t we all invoke other associations (as per previous example, we went to the same school, we’re from the same town, etc.) when we ask for help or lend a hand, more so in frats when the other party is someone you consider a brother."
and people in law circles know that there is really a mafia of something-something there. and fraternities do count a lot, especially when vying for plum posts. --- erase, erase. may mga sinulat ako dito kanina na sobrang incriminating na binura ko baka habulin ako ng mga 'to.
tanungin nyo na lang ako sa ibang pagkakataon.
anyhow, sana may mga batchmates si cris mendez na lumapit at magsabi ng totoo. sana makonsyensya sila. how can they enjoy their membership knowing one of them -- a batchmete -- died?
at sana sa mga perpetrators, mamatay kayo sa guilt.
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mas maganda pa kung ang mga frats eh katulad ng napanood ko sa stomp the yard kanina on dvd. should do their chest-puffing chests during stepping na lang. yes, there are greek-letter orgs out there who compete in stepping kesa magpaluan ng tubo.
