Word: greek
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When newly appointed Dartmouth College President James Wright announced two weeks ago that his institution would end its long Greek tradition, he sent a clarion call through the nation's universities. Premised on the noble goals of improving residential life and reducing alcohol abuse, this decision furthers a disturbing trend of social engineering prevailing among educational administrators...
Increasingly, these ivory tower pooh-bahs ignore students' interests and enforce an illiberal orthodoxy. Single-sex fraternities and sororities are bad, the argument goes, because they stifle social interaction, encourage anti-intellectual behavior and exacerbate the unsafe use of alcohol. Perhaps most importantly, Greek life is said to retard attempts at campus integration by separating men from women and excluding traditionally underrepresented groups. One wonders where thoughts of these goals are when pushing drinking into more exclusive and unsafe dorm parties or arranging housing based on ethnicity. As part of the aging Baby Boom, university administrators have turned free speech...
...Greek scene at Princeton was terminated by Woodrow Wilson at the turn of the century, but has enjoyed an underground rebirth in the past 20 years. Wilson also tried to suspend the non-residential "eating clubs" but alumni would not stand for it. Our club system has its flaws but stands strong with about three quarters of upper-classmen as members. In a story in The Dartmouth, the college's daily newspaper, one student noted that barring single-sex frats would give rise to their co-ed equivalents, along the lines of Princeton's modern eating clubs. Those...
Never in my wildest college dreams did I think I would "go Greek," but as a junior I had the opportunity to join a truly unique fraternity. My fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, is one of the most diverse organizations on campus both in the politically correct and the real sense. We are white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, conservative, liberal and libertarian. We are residents of the Northeast, South, midwest, West, international students, immigrants and many-generational Americans...
Visitors to Oxford and residents alike enjoy trips to Faulkner's 1840 Greek Revival home, Rowan Oak. Other attractions include the university's collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, one of the nation's finest, and its world-class jazz-blues archive. Another college-town perk: attending Southeastern Conference football and basketball games...