Greek Life

I went to University at Binghamton this past weekend to watch their China Night event. I performed in the Buffalo China Night recently and me and my friends decided to go see the Binghamton China Night because we heard the past few years have been impressive. We got approximately 115 people in the student union theater and Binghamton got approximately 300 people to show up for their China Night. Buffalo's China Night was no comparison to Binghamton's. Their performance contained more and impressive acts. Our China Night incorporated a skit, while their China Night were acts of singing and dancing. Granted, Binghamton prepared for their performance about two months in advance while we prepared only two weeks in advance because we did an extra performance called international fiesta.
Even though Binghamton's China Night was better in that it had more acts and a bigger audience everybody in the audience and show was affiliated to a fraternity or sorority. My friends and I were the only ones without letters on our jackets and shirts. The crowd in audience was separated based on what sorority or fraternity they belonged to. It was very "clicky" in that people stayed secluded only to their group. I felt like I was in High School again. Isn't greek life intended to promote the broadening of one's horizons by meeting new people. In my opinion Greek life only isolates one to a particular group of friends. By joining a fraternity or sorority, it lessens the chance for one to get to know other people outside of their fraternity/sorority. Therefore,their China Night was more of a popularity showcase through performances than an actual representation of Chinese culture.

Pro-Choice

In my opinion, women should be given the option to bear children or to not bear children. The government shouldn’t be allowed to interfere with the decisions a woman makes. Don’t we pride this country on democracy, freedom and people’s rights? Giving the government the power to declare abortion is illegal would be contradicting our country’s doctrine. Forcing a woman to conceive is making a big decision for her life because a child affects every part of a person’s life. Besides labor, a child imposes financial, time, social and many other losses. If the government declared abortion is illegal, it would be overstepping its boundaries into the rights of the people. The person pregnant with the child should be the only person that has the final decision in whether or not it’s going to be brought out into this world. Having a pro-choice stance doesn’t necessarily mean that a person would rather have abortion than to conceive a child. Honestly, I’m not sure if I would consider abortion if I was pregnant at 18 years old. Therefore pro-choice and pro-abortion is not interchangeable. A person who believes in pro-choice believes that woman should be given the choice to decide whether they want a baby, while a person of pro-abortion supports abortion. Another reason why abortion should be kept legal is so it’s’ government funding can continue and people would be able to have safe abortions. Even if abortions were made illegal, many people would still do it, either by themselves or by somebody else. Whether it is a teenage girl who doesn’t want her parents to find out, or a married woman who wants to destroy all evidence that she’s been cheating, or for the pure fact that a woman isn’t financially stable, people will find many reasons to illegally abort their baby. If the government were to make it illegal, woman would resort to dangerous measures to abort their baby because there wouldn’t be any abortion centers due to lack of government funding. Therefore two salient reasons why abortion should be kept legal is to continue the democracy our country fosters as well as prevent the tragedies of woman dying from unsafe abortions.