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SteveS: Brawling In WSU Frats

If you saw the front page this morning, you read about WSU fratsters arguing they should have the right to engage in brawls without fear of citation. It was an amazing story. Apparently there are frequent brawls between frats, kind of like gang or Mafia wars in urban centers. I don't think this is typical. My son thumbed his nose at his father's history by joining a frat at the University of Denver. He's been there three-plus years now and there hasn't been a single brawl between frats in all of that time. And his frat raises thousands of dollars per year for charities and good works. He tells me that is one of the main goals of Greek life. That is the norm at most schools as far as I can tell/Editor Steve Smith, News Is A Conversation.

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.