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...should Harvard recognize fraternities and sororities on ts campus? Unfortunately, Harvard has chosen to take a negative approach to this question, seeking reasons why the University should not allow fraternities and sororities here...
THIS kind of negative approach is flawed in two ways. First, it takes the easy way out of truly considering allowing fraternities and sororities on this campus. If Harvard were truly considering greeks on campus, it would have to conduct some sort of investigation to find the pros and cons of recognizing such groups. Simply relying on press reports of isolated incidents around the United States is not sufficient...
...fraternities and sororities, among them the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Louis Sullivan of the Bush cabinet and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (all of them members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity). If organizations that could boast of such people were allowed to organize on Harvard's campus, the benefits to the Harvard, Cambridge and Boston communities would be immeasurable...
...clear from these arguments that Harvard should not be so smug in rejecting the notion of greeks on this campus. But another issue that arises from this discussion is that of the final clubs. They are in many respects similar to fraternities and sororities (in selective membership, for example); yet Harvard does not recognize them on campus. Why should greeks be treated differently...
...these noble ideals and aims will never be achieved in Cambridge unless Harvard's administration gives more serious and thorough consideration to the prospect of recognizing Greek-lettered organizations on this campus...