Proof Heironymus can dance...

[Anonymous]

Alright, I stumbled upon this a minute ago, and I knew you'd all want to see it. As you may or may not know, Heironymus and I are fraternity brothers in Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity at Georgia Southern University.  Well, his pledge class... "volunteered" to perform in the schools annual doodah/dance show.  This was a practice run they performed during a party.  Heironymus will be the big guy in the green shirt and khaki pantsdoing the Zombie-like manuevre at 1:19

Here's the link to the dance with Heironymus in it. They didn't win the competition, but they gave it a good run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDcGPEqDdI

Next is a link of the next year's pledges at an annual step show/fundraiser as the blue man group.  This one won first place at the competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTXPKtPRD4

[Heironymus]

Your on my KOS list now...




btw.. I start off in the back row on the left side of the video.. my right side...



 and the second video.. the guy doing all the flips is my little brother in the fraternity

[Lits]

Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh.... that video singlehandedly kept my weekend from sucking. Thank you Heironymus, thank you Apollithenes. May you never live it down!

[Heironymus]

I do the A-town stomp
hhehe...

[Subb]

Whoo Heir and bob ftw

[Anonymous]

I can shoulder lean. I don't know how to dance though:)

[Pirus]

im sorry but i just had to laugh at that and how stupid frats can be sometimes but entertaining to say the least thanks btw... i agree with subb HEIRONYMUS FTW!!

[Anonymous]

how stupid frats can be sometimes

We dont call your country a cunt, dont call our fraternity a "frat".

You can ask Heironymus our guys really enjoy this competition. We take away their practices to punish them :-D

[Pirus]

hmm fraternities take offense to them being called frats? just kind of thought it was a shortened version so that they didn't have to say the whole thing.  hehe but in any case my bad  hmm i have to wonder though .. you said they take away practice for punishment. hmm like what type of things would they do to deserve that kind of punishment. (or not do whatever the case maybe)

[Da6onet]

hmm fraternities take offense to them being called frats?

Yes. At least, the good ones do.

[Pirus]

wow didn't know that

[Anonymous]

Its not that the shortening is offensive. Its that Frat means something different from Fraternity. Fraternity is the action of Fraterhood, or more commonly known as "brotherhood". Frat is associated with Frat guys, Frat parties, Frat lifestyle. Frat is a reference to the "Animal House" style lifestyle that people unfortuantly associate with fraternities. There has been a huge anti-fraternity movement on campuses across the country because of the pink-polo-popped-collar-douche-bag strerotype that has developed within the elitist fraternities on campuses. I'll be the first one to tell you that fraternities are bred to believe that they are the best. Its a matter of what they think they are best at. Tau Kappa Epsilon stands for finding the BEST men. Men who do not judge others based on wealth rank or honor, but instead on personal worth and character. So when you say fraternity it means you believe that we are men who share a common bond, who take care of one another, and the community. When you say Frat it means you believe that all fratenrities are a group of people who only care aboout parties, clothes, and wealth. Sorry for the rant, and I understand that you meant no offense, but I felt like I could help everyone better understand why we take offense to that.

Well... as Da6 said,

At least, the good ones do.

[Pirus]

wow, nice thanks for the input on the differences there... yeah i wasn't using it in any type of sterotype form just as an abbreviation... (too lazy to type the whole thing) but very nice to know for future references.

[Tbone]

Ah, another reason I never joined a fraternity...heh. I never could get past the part where you pay for friends who make you feel like shit the first few weeks you are with them. I went to a few parties freshman year and it was always this stupid game with the fraternity guys trying to get as much alcohol in the girls as possible, while the girls tried to get as much free alcohol as possible without getting caught with their pants down. And of course you have your racist fraternities and all-black fraternities and this and that. Most of them could just be described as "shady".

I'm sure there might be a decent fraternity or two out there, but don't think you are defending the "majority". Most people join for the parties and popularity, though if you are in FA, you have to have good taste, so no worries...heh.

Back on topic, the video freezes at 19 secs for me. I'm still trying to get it to work...

[Anonymous]

Its not that the shortening is offensive. Its that Frat means something different from Fraternity. Fraternity is the action of Fraterhood, or more commonly known as "brotherhood". Frat is associated with Frat guys, Frat parties, Frat lifestyle. Frat is a reference to the "Animal House" style lifestyle that people unfortuantly associate with fraternities. There has been a huge anti-fraternity movement on campuses across the country because of the pink-polo-popped-collar-douche-bag strerotype that has developed within the elitist fraternities on campuses. I'll be the first one to tell you that fraternities are bred to believe that they are the best. Its a matter of what they think they are best at. Tau Kappa Epsilon stands for finding the BEST men. Men who do not judge others based on wealth rank or honor, but instead on personal worth and character. So when you say fraternity it means you believe that we are men who share a common bond, who take care of one another, and the community. When you say Frat it means you believe that all fratenrities are a group of people who only care aboout parties, clothes, and wealth. Sorry for the rant, and I understand that you meant no offense, but I felt like I could help everyone better understand why we take offense to that.

Well... as Da6 said,

At least, the good ones do.

I'm sorry gotta put out the quote my parents told me about the TKE house at Nebraska when they went through college....If you can't go Greek, go TKE. Aside from that your post is right on. I'm also in a fraternity and yes, we don't like being called Frats.  The TKE house is right across the street and they are a good group of guys, aside from one of their new pledge's who decided he didn't like one of our guys and wanted to fight him (afterwords I found out from the pledge class president that the guy is on steriods and probably won't be sticking around, or so he hoped).  And just so you know I am in BEY(Beta Sigma Psi) which is the national lutheran fraternity.  

As far as paying for friends, it's never felt that way to me Tbone, half the guys in the house are idiototic morons who, while they are generaly good guys, I can't stand most the time because of the things they do.  The other half have become some of the best friends I have.