A fraternity at Emerson College in Boston, Mass.

That explains it. I read the headline and thought where the hell is this going on?

this made me smile...some faith in humanity restored!

Humanity - really.

Oh wow....what a beautiful story....there's hope for us after all!!!

ROFLMAO!

Take note, America.

@Dick

That's right - proud to be born and raised in MA. We care about people here. It's wild.

He is transgender he has both parts! this is not a woman wanting to be a man this is someone who has both sides and wants one side removed so he can live his life as a man and not a woman. This isn't about homosexuality or gender bending this is someone who is truly on the fence and picking a side.

So someone who's brain is hardwired to think they should be a different sex and wants to cut off parts of their body does not have a disorder. But someone who's brain is hardwired to make them think that their leg is not theirs and wants to have it cut off has a disorder. Sure, makes perfect sense to me.

cnborjas...Actually, if you read the article, that is not correct. He is not a hermaphrodite, he is having female-to-male reassignment surgery. I personally think it's great that he has so much support from his friends and community, and like big picture I am a proud Bostonian, born and raised.

Jim he's not hardwired to think he is a different sex. He most likely has all the male parts but from the article has grown breasts once he was older and found that he was releasing lots of female hormones. He wants to stop this and his insurance said this is not covered he frat brothers said 'hey that sucks lets do something to help.' why is there a problem here?

ECF

to cover Collins' chest reconstruction.

this and hormone therapy are the only things that he is looking to have done. Hemaphrodite does not mean everything is fully developed.

There is no mention of her being a hemaphrodite in the story. The story is clearly about a female that wants to have gender "confirmation" surgery to have her breasts removed. She does not have any male sex organs at this time. It might be confusing to you because they constantly refer to her as "him", "his", or "he" because she identifies as male.

You could be right Jim I was under the assumption that the term "him", "his", "he" made me think that this was a hermaphrodite case. the article is a little misleading here if that is the case. She wishes to identify herself as a male would definitely not correspond to one being a male.

cnborjas - He most likely has all the male parts but from the article has grown breasts once he was older and found that he was releasing lots of female hormones.

Ummmm......no. He's got female body parts and a male brain. It's far easier (and more ethical) to rewire the external genitalia than to rewire the brain.

She wishes to identify herself as a male would definitely not correspond to one being a male.

Actually it does. What's in your head is where your gender identity resides, not what's between your legs.

You might want to google "gender dysphoria" to learn about the issue.

No, it is a man, who wants to be a woman, transgender does not mean he has both. It means to transcend into a woman. And i am really proud of the rest of you. The comments are not filled with gay hating or nothing.

Hey look at me. I am special

@Richard,

You got it backwards. Woman that wants to be a man.

The brothers of Phi Alpha Tau have received more than $16,000 in donations for Donnie Collins, 20, a sophomore pledge seeking female-to-male gender transition surgery to remove his breasts.

Oh, and I was wrong, I guess it is a disorder. Gender Dysphoria

That all said, her body, their money. Not really my business.

Richard G~ He is currently a woman, who wants to be a man.

@ Zappas~ Just because your mother tells you something, doesn't make it so.

I dunno, they're talking about chest reconstruction and hormone therapy only?

Did he already have genital reconstruction? Or is he just not going through with that? Medical writers, figure out what the hell you want to say.

As far as gender dysphoria, etc. being a disorder, yeah, it is. It's treatable by making the physical body match up to what the brain thinks should be there, since rewiring the brain is impossible with our current technology, and has more unethical probabilities than the other option even if it were possible.

BIID, well, it seems they prefer to treat it without amputation, if possible. Then again, I see no reason not to allow a person to become an amputee. Just so long as they can't choose that for anyone else, and won't end up being a burden on an unwilling third party. Amputation does have physical drawbacks related to functioning afterwards that transsexual surgery does not. If a person wishes to be a quadruple-amputee, I'd say they'd better have somebody that can take care of them lined up afterwards. If everyone's on board, then go for it.

if that sounds gay, u have absolutely no idea what this is about. thousands around the world have this surgery done yearly. male to female, female to male. it has nothing to do with gay, str8, bisexuality. it has to do with what the inner self feels and knows, that somehow an outward looking male or outward looking female is really the opposite in their minds and heart. do some reading, it wont kill you.

happy42xxx - Sounds pretty dumb - should work with what God gave you and not try to be so confused in your life choices

Life choices? Gender identity isn't a choice, it's how your brain is wired.

And your imaginary sky wizard apparently put the brain of a man into the body of a woman. Oops!

Yeah,,,, about that. LOL, If I was a girl and I looked like Fred Savage from the wonder years, I would want to change something too. I'm just glad that someone had the intelligence to not burden the health coverage with this. If this things "Brothers" want to raise money for it fine. I personally do not necessarily care to read about this stuff, but hey since the headline was there, my morbid curiosity got the better of me. More power to those involved with this, but I hope it is the last we hear of this story and that the story line dies out quickly so that we can get back to more important issues like the state of this nation.

wow, this girl wants to be a boy; colorado has a 6 year old boy that wants to be a girl. whats this world coming to?

So does she pledge a sorority now?

Uh, I would step up to the plate and donate if it was an illness or an emergency. But a personal preference for a sex change? No thank you and count me out. I'll save my donations for real emergencies such as hurricane/tornado/wild fire relief. And the little 6 year old boy/girl here in Colorado is rather weird. But the mother said she would home school her kid and I think that is a great idea. Or else schools will be required to build unisex bathrooms next which is more money taken away from a strapped education system.

Those people have way too much Daddy's money to waste....having yourself carved into a different sex to get attention is beyond maladjusted....beyond mentally ill.....beyond belief.

Oh and now, I'd like to hear those same arguments for this that is used to pretend gays are born that way and have no control over practising perversions....so this is "natural"?

wtf student debts are on the rise...grads having tough time obtaining employment...guess thats too boring....oh well gonna have a drink and chill --- peace :) people

For those of you against this or prefer to focus your donations elsewhere-that is fine.

However, I think this is a nice story of supporting someone you care about no matter what. This fraternity clearly understands what true brotherhood means. I'm sure many cannot identify with him, but one of their brothers is in need-and they all come together.

My boss here at the auto repair shop I work at decided to give the guys here free sex changes because they bitch all the time like women,lol!!

think it through somewhere there is a man that wants to be a woman and can use those breast you need to start up a donor club, don't throw them away! besides if its a match maybe you can get his penis , that will make the transformation complete and a real penis might even work? and all the girl stuff could be sold with the breast. in a few decades people will be able to just swap heads. how many starving people will be saved by this surgery? now that I think about it somewhere there is a man that wants to stay a man but would still love to have some real working female breast and some hopeful students that want to become Seurgons that can use the practice if everyone would just work together and start up a live donor program allot of financial obstacles can be overcome you have to think beyond the crotch. its possible we can even do some mix matching for the more adventurist type, maybe set you up to be a super sports model capable of serving six at a time 3 of each oh wait some people already have that going for them but not multiple organs on the one person, this is endless imagine the possibilities we need a national donor tissue program and a swap program no s#it. then there are the glands that produce the hormones that you will need so you don't have to mix hormones you guys can swap glands, crotches, breast, other related sexually orientated body parts, advance the science and possibly lead to brain transplants, wouldn't it be cool if you could pick out your body from a lineup of potential matches for your brain, and even change your sex to strike your mood for that year. and if you decide you don't like your new sex as much as you thought you would it will be much simpler to change back if you have your brain rigged to plug and play. that could be the normal in the future. but for now you need to get on the Ellen show and rack in some bucks. change takes time.

D- they need to check out the 6 year old in colorado. we are all going to hell.

I call B.S. ... If SHE really believes that SHE should be a HE then she would never get rid of her breasts. I mean come on what GUY doesn't like boobs? If I had boobs I would play with them constantly! lol

Why?! This money would have gone to the soup kitchen or to the homeless shelter but this is a waste of money. Seriously, wake up and look what you're doing; you're giving away money that could have been put into good use to help the world instead you give away money so he can have a sex-change?!

This is very selfish. SMH

This puts a whole new meaning to MAN BOOBS! :)

It is awesome of his fraternity to treat him this way and not only accept him but help him with the expenses that will be involved in removing his breasts. It's a shame that more people don't accept people how they are whether you approve of it or not. It isn't your place to approve of what other people do with their lives and Jim, he's not suing the insurance company to change their policies so the whole leg thing, which isn't a disorder, doesn't matter.

Some pretty blatant ignorance in some of the posts here. Transgender means someone has body parts that don't match their sex. In most cases this means they are infertile as well. These people are trapped in-between-sexes. This is not a sex change operation, it is a choice to correct what nature got wrong. Typically this occurs when two sperms, one male, and one female fertilize a single egg, but happen to be genetically compatible so no rejection occurs. Similar in concept to a chimera.

God allowed you to be born a female and I feel that to go against what God created for your life is a sin. I think this money donated is wasted on a selfish attitudes. The money would be put to better use if donated to the homeless or vets who are struggling with problems because of the war they went through to give you a free country to live in. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't believe you will be any happier being a man than staying a woman. Happiness is a choice - not something you can have surgery to create.

JPC45 - Why?! This money would have gone to the soup kitchen or to the homeless shelter but this is a waste of money.

Really? What other mental health treatments do you think should be denied and the money spent instead on soup kitchens? Just people who have suicidal ideation, or mental health treatment in general?

Compared to many other mental health treatments, gender reassignment surgery is cheap and has a very high success rate.

REALLY????????????? WTF is wrong with this world? Typical liberals, instead of helping those in real need they want to cause a stir and provide money for this freak! Makes me want to just want to *^#*$^&#^$*#^$&^$&*&^$%^&**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JBAbbott - Transgender means someone has body parts that don't match their sex. In most cases this means they are infertile as well. These people are trapped in-between-sexes.

Not exactly. You've confused gender dysphoria with being intersex. This person apparently has gender dysphoria, a male brain in a female body.

But you're right that intersex folks are often infertile.

For those of you complaining that a "girl" wants to be a "guy," go @!$%# yourselves.

For those of you insisting that people shouldn't donate to this guy to help him out, and instead the frat boys should put that money elsewhere, double-@!$%# yourselves. Because I'm sure you're the first to pipe up about the government stealing your money, especially when it does things you don't like.

For those of you complaining about the story, saying that some valuable megabytes of storage have been wasted on it, triple-@!$%# yourselves. I don't know how, don't ask me, but do it. You not only wasted your own time reading an article you obviously don't care about, you wasted everyone else's by complaining loudly to point out how "big picture" you are. Seriously, bite me.

Really Kelly, it took this one article to teach you that? Maybe you should leave your computer once in awhile because nice/great things happen every day. Most people do go out of their way to help out in one way or another.

Lisa

shut up. clearly you're not the one running around helping people if YOU just sit on your computer all day to put down people's nice and supportive comments.

Clearly someone peed in your cherios this morning. Geesh.

Besides I'm rubber you're glue what ever you say bounces off me and back to you!

peed in my cheerios? Did you read your comment? Perhaps you didn't realize my negativity was a response to yours. and sorry I don't speak 5 year old anymore.

oh shut up

Geez, Lisa-3322183... you totally put down the big picture's positive comments. He said nothing wrong or negative. You are the one who was negative and spiteful and childish. Maybe you can find a blog for kids and rake them over the coals. Or maybe handicapped people. Try being nice, oh wait... for you nice and bitching are oxymorons... heavy on the moron.

Here we go again with the name calling. Do you feel better now lady???

@kelly; are you for real? hope in mankind? their cutting his shween off!! you better hope the surgery dosen`t go bad, this way you can put your hope in the taxpayer, because thats who`ll get stuck with the bill!! NONSENSE! I don`t know whose a bigger a$$hole you or lisa-3322183!!!

@ lisa-3322...: mommy found your binky, it was in your lunchbox!!!!!!

And thank the student health plan for rejecting this creep!!!!!

@muddlerfly: "....their cutting his shween off!!"

Re-read the article. You've got it wrong.

the brothers may have had the best of it all! who knows?

@muddlerfly, recommend you read what transgender is. I commented on that on thread 1.39.

Kelly...you f*cking enabler!! Go crawl back into your sh*tbox of a existence and stop promoting this f*cked up type of lifestyle!!!!!!!!!!!!

@muddlerfly -- let me just solve one of your problems right off the bat -- the BIGGER A$$HOLE is YOU!!! You're probably just another republican/teabagger. The reason I know this is because your reading comprehension SUCKS -- I mean for god's sake, the article wasn't that long or involved and you still didn't get it. As for the surgery...if it doesn't work, it's not a taxpayers problem and even if it were, can you do the simple math and figure out how many fractions of nothing it would cost each of us. You're just a hateful old bitch who doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground -- talk about a creep -- that's you baby. You probably call yourself a christian too!!! FAR OUT!!! If it makes you feel any better, Lisa (the 5 year old with internet access) runs a close second to you in the A$$HOLE contest -- but you're the big winner (or is that whiner?) GFY

Awesome story! Smitty-4183671-Collins is currently a female seeking a female to male gender transition surgery so he would still belong in the fraternity that has accepted him as a biological female. It isnt like he is a male wishing to transition into a female...

Shundreka Mims Randolph Thanks for letting me know that. I kind of read the story to fast, am I bad or what.

DickCranium,

The proper pronoun is he NOT it.

DickCranium -

We get it: you're a miserable human being who hates himself. Just post that on your newsvine page instead of posting comments. It will save you a lot of time and effort, and it will save everyone else from having to trudge through your comments that basically mean exactly that. I mean, sure, people feel sorry for you, but if you're constantly seeking attention through these desperate cries for help, then maybe get a puppy or a kitty, that would be a lot more effective and satisfying.

"If there is to be a brave new world, it will be our generation that will have the hardest time living in it."

Smitty, I'm almost 50 and I'm "shook up" because this is such a nice, happy story!!

Wouldn't the proper pronoun be "she", not "he" or "it"?

If he didn't identify with being a man, then yes, Jim, the proper pronoun would be "she." But that isn't the case, so it's "he."

Drezz: Very nice with the Chancellor Gorkon quote. But, alas, you and I are probably the only Trek nerds on this whole vine who will get it.

The young generation now accepts these gender changes now because most are raised with no morals, and frankly, don't give a damn. Wired wrong??? no, they are wired right, just confused at the world. And people are screaming "WHAT IS WRONG WiTH SOCIETY TODAY ???" Wow people, you don't have a clue, ever hear the phrase"can't see the forest because of the trees" ?

The liberal indoctrination program is in its 33rd year everyone that has been educated in that time frame is so confused everything seams normal. except the older generations that don't share the new normal, and don't drink the kool aid. for some reason the younger generation has as difficult a time trying to understand them as they do the younger generation, basically what it amounts to is the fruit has ripened and is now starting to rot another end to another cycle. and a new beginning with some new tenant'sits close to harvest time. I wonder what the new crop will be. its not like we did not know the plan. if the ship sails make sureyou are on it because it wont be returning for those that missed it.

I pray for your soul krekk, to the one & only true God!

"The liberal indoctrination program"

"The young generation now accepts these gender changes now because most are raised with no morals"

So, what would be the moral action? To judge another? Condemn another?? Make laws against anyone who we feel even the least bit threatened by, or who is anything but white, Christian, male, and heterosexual?

After WWI, in the 20s and 30s, radio,roads, and later, electricity brought the world to the Fundamentalist Christians of Appalachia. Their reaction was a moral and social crusade against this 'new' immorality called the Old-Time movement, which was about returning to the traditional values and way of life of the 18th and 19th century. They found that the world was not what they had been taught it was or should be, and insisted the rest of the world conform to their standards - the standards and worldview of the illiterate, superstitious hillbilly.

Many of you on the internet, previously connected to the world through TV and films, now, late in your lives, find yourselves connected to a larger world through the internet. You can think that the values that you learned in your small town, suburb, or farm house are absolute, universal, and timeless, but they are clearly not. You seem to want the world to conform to you and your values, as if you have the power to judge or control others.

None of this is anything new, it's just that you seem to be unhappy because someone is 'accepted' rather than punished, and that someone is treated with basic human respect and compassion rather than the contempt and condemnation of traditional, illiterate tribalism.

And you think you know morality or decency? This story is about morality and decency. The immoral and indecent are those that are upset or angered by it. And that's surprising, because at this point in life, shouldn't you be seeking redemption, instead of doubling-down?

Daniel please elaborate on what is so good about being so self important no disrespect intended but this is a little off the bubble when it comes to goodness, now what happens next will this womanman marry a manwoman and be the man that bares children or will this person be considered Gay or Bisexual or what new normal, personally I just cant understand what is so good about being something that you are not. and its a fact that most these people or at least a great deal don't properly adjust, don't get me wrong this type of condition I have more sympathy's to then the Gay or Lesbian community, I don't respect the bisexual community any more then people that have sex with animals, this person truly believes she is in the wrong body and is attempting to fix it but maybe she is in the right body and is mentally confused and will not be able to adjust to any change, what if after all is done she decides she is a woman and wants to have a baby and play mommy for a while it has happened. and what would that make her mate knowing that he is a she and she marries a she then they are lesbians? and what if she carries a baby that she will have to have planted their her own egg or not will the hormones that she will have to continue tacking mess up the child that will be borne, remember the womanman that was the first man to give birth and then the second man to give birth when in fact she is a woman disguised surgically as a man married to a woman but instincts told her its time to have babies, the world just keeps getting weirder.

@D Buck (or was that DICK BUTT) As for who is confused and who is not -- I put my money on you. WTF does it matter to you what any person does with THEIR body -- it's none of your F-ing business. It doesn't have any meaning to me, my family, my friends or anybody for that matter. Since you are basically IGNORANT, you don't understand that sexual reassignment surgery is not something that you just go into a hospital and request. It requires a lot of work with a psychologist/psychiatrist who specializes in this area, not to mention many other medical professionals. You really should see a doctor (head doctor) and maybe they can fix your warped mind. Or maybe you can pray to your god to help you rid yourself of all the hate you carry --- somehow I get the idea that you were molested as a child. Go for help, it's out there

"IT" belongs to a freternity?

Who do you think taught the new generation? The baby boomers are the generation of Woodstock, anti-war demonstrations and the civil rights movement.

then we all would be killing each other more.. the old didn't walk into schools and start killing children..

The money is specifically for HIS surgery. As for the leftovers (if there are any):

"The campaign's managers announced Wednesday morning that they plan to donate all the excess cash to the Jim Collins Foundation, a group that "raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries for those transgender people who need surgery to live a healthy life," according to the organization's website."

Might I suggest actually reading the article?

He needs to be able to pay the hospital, the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and all the ancillaries in cash, since providers can't count on insurance payments. He should fight the insurance company's denial, though, because no reputable psychologist or psychiatrist thinks the procedures are "cosmetic." That's just insurance-ese for "we don't want to pay for it," just like "experimental" is. They have a whole glossery of fancy terms to use when denying a claim, and it's almost always used for denying what they should be paying for. (I used to pay health insurance claims for a living.) The tide has turned now, and the frat could use that money to fight them in court - and almost assuredly win. Because breast reduction is only the first step in his physical transition. A surgeon will also have to fashion a penis, as well. (It's not that big a deal any more. They do it for soldiers who have them blown off by IEDs, too.) Male-to-female surgery requires only one, or at most two, separate procedures; female-to-male requires half a dozen separate procedures, and the price pretty much triples that of M-t-F. Fourteen thou won't even get him in the door. Better to use the money to sue the insurance company, to force them to cover it ALL.

The bottom line is that it is 100% impossible to make the mind change to fit the body, so the only alternative is to change the body to fit the mind. That, they can do.

100 % impossible.. speak for yourself.. I would like to know where you get your ACCURATE and FACTUAL data....cut off your hand , i bet that your mind will adapt your body to continue on..

you are aware that insurance is based on expense, if it is not life threatening then it doesn't belong their it only makes insurance more expensive and that is a bad thing for most people so if you want cosmetic surgery or something like a modification that is of your own desire then you pay for it because insurance is already to damn expensive and I don't want to have to lessen my health care so some girl can have a personel penis to play with or so some boy can grow tits. where in the hell do you young people come up with all this socialist crap what drugs were your parents taking at Woodstock that could damage not only their fried minds but those of future generations and even melt minds that they simply got within hearing range, what bunk. next you will want tattoos to be coverd under your health insurance.

@lobrid or is it LOW BRED? Me thinks the latter more appropriate.

Money is raised and sent their all the time only to be confinscated by the powers to be over there.

Besides Donnie's fraternity brothers raised this money for him to feel better about the person he is meant to be.

correction - there.

You can always donate 16K of your own to for hunger/poverty stricken individuals in Africa.

Sixteen thou...? Why, it would almost be enough to give everyone in Darfur one bean. Foreign aid to the Third World runs from hundreds of millions to billions. $16k is one drop in the Pacific, unless you can figure out how to confine it to a single village. On the other hand, how much world hunger could be assuaged with the money rednecks give to the NRA and KKK...?

Cant reason with a liberal so why bother.

Cant reason with a liberal so why bother.

Actually LB, that is incorrect!

Lord, but you're ignorant! "She" doesn't WANT to be a "he." HE has a body that doesn't match his mind. People commit suicide over this. The only time "it" would be appropriate would be if there was no gender AT ALL. Mothers with hermaphrodite babies choose one pronoun or the other, but never, ever "it." (Nowadays, the doctors recommend the parents raise the child androgynously, and allow him or her to CHOOSE a gender at puberty, so the appropriate hormones can be administered.) I suppose even a molecule of empathy from you is out of the question...

I love the way you only make backhanded compliments! You say "I prefer you happy," but just have to tack on "It's friggin' creepy."

As for them "screaming about LGBT issues constantly," if YOU were treated as a second-class citizen at every turn, would you just keep quiet and accept it...??? Somehow, I doubt it. But somehow it's a bad thing when other people object to it. When you've walked a mile in their shoes, then you can be snippy.

She will just another fat ugly dude like Chaz Bono. A chick with a dik, is still a chick. Only another weird chick will ever be interested in her. Chaz still doesn't have anyone. At least not anyone who is normal.

not everyone gets the surgery down below. Genital surgery is not that advanced and people end up losing A LOT of sensitivity. Quite a few trans PEOPLE (not "it") chose to only do the top by either adding or subtracting breasts.

I think this is awesome! I always thought the only thing fraternities had to offer were date rapes and AIDS jokes (line from Heathers) but I am really happy to see I was wrong.

Genital surgery was more advanced than you describe thirty years ago, when my friend Susie had it. Anyone who is still in college and may have to share a communal shower in gym class wants the genital surgery, above and beyond simple self-image concerns.

But I do agree that this story changes my image of frat boys. I'm sure most of them are still as bad as ever, especially at the big state universities. But Emerson is not the kind of school that attracts the "Steve Dallas" sort of frat rat.

The fact that they do a lot doesn't necessarily mean they're very good at it - by American standards.

Mike needs mental health help. Hopefully, his insurance will cover it.

No he doesn't. This is highly elective surgery and not medically required. He can live his life as a man even lacking the plumbing. I worked for a company that covered gender reassignments, hormone therapy and virtually anything desired along gender issues at an astronomiccal cost. They of course passed that cost to the workers. What they would not cover was cosmetic surgery, hair transplant and similar other "make me feel good about myself" procedures. Gender reassignment is absurdly expensive and although crude surgeons will tell you it is easier to dig a hole than build a pole, male to female is expensive but female to male costs a fortune.

Explorerdog1 - This is highly elective surgery and not medically required.

His psychiatrists disagree with your diagnosis.

Shrekk, for the right amount of money shrinks will say anything. Check out all the shrinks who testify in insanity pleas during murder trials.

I agree. This is elective surgery and should not be covered by public or insurance funds. It's not medically required.

Janine-1645002 - Shrekk, for the right amount of money shrinks will say anything.

He would have had to find several shrinks to buy off then since most gender reassignment surgeons won't do the work unless 3 outside psychiatrist plus the hospital board agree that the surgery is necessary. This isn't something anyone does on a whim, including the patient and all the doctors involved.

And since most transgendered folks are rather poor I'm not sure where you imagine they come up with all that money, much less enough to convince an already wealthy psychiatric specialist to risk losing his license and career.

Shrekk,. I don't see why the fact that they are transgendered has anything to do with whether they have money or not.

It's elective surgery. Not medically required.

How they come up with the money for it is not my problem.

I would like to have my breasts reduced,,but since they are not big enough to be a health issue my insurance would not cover it. So I have to either live with what I have, or spend my own money on it.

It's My problem. My decision.

Janine-1645002 - It's elective surgery. Not medically required.

Multiple psychiatrists and the hospital board disagree with your assessment. This surgery is never performed unless it's required for a person's mental health. It's not elective surgery in the sense that most cosmetic surgeries are elective surgeries.

Why are you @!$%#ting all over a frat doing something nice for one of their brothers? You don't know what else the frat does for the homeless, elderly, cancer patients, etc. If you do, please, enlighten us.

We live in a world where people thinking outside of themselves is pretty rare. Why can't we just cherrish it when we read stories about people helping others, regardless of the cause?

Have a good day.

You've got that right Jason....strange and twisted times.:(

Maybe they raised $16,000 for the homeless last week. Since you know nothing about what these brothers have done in the past you have nothing valuable to add to the discussion.

That's pretty much my point. Where ARE the stories on all the good and wonderful things this frat has done? Why is THIS one in the news? This is ONE person. jdp and joe, you are both right - we DON'T know what else they have done. Where's THAT story?? Why don't YOU enlighten us?