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DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD. Incoming Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis is vowing to hand suspected terrorist Mohammed Rashid over to the U.S. to stand trial for the 1982 midflight bombing of a Pan Am jet near Hawaii. The U.S. has been trying to get hold of Rashid ever since he was arrested in Greece, but the unfriendly government of Andreas Papandreou always said no. However, Mitsotakis' gift may come with a condition attached: the return to Greece of accused embezzler George Koskotas, now in a Massachusetts prison. Koskotas would then be available to testify if Papandreou is brought...
...Margaret B. Alexiou, Seferis professor of modern Greek studies, on the Faculty Council's decision to issue a formal statement condemning the military's policy of excluding gays and lesbians...
Paradoxically, these restrictive measures come at a time when Greek life is enjoying a nationwide renaissance. Fraternity membership has mushroomed to 400,000 from a low point of 149,000 in the long-haired '70s; sororities have shown a similar resurgence. Even at Yale, fraternities, once moribund, resurfaced soon after Connecticut raised the drinking age to 21. Sororities have come back to Stanford after a 40-year hiatus. Harvard continues to outlaw fraternities, as it has since the turn of the century, but students have banded together unofficially in at least three such groups...
...Greek fraternities, those longtime social standbys of college life, are under siege. At the moment, their battlements are being assaulted by critics who want them to admit women to their all-male precincts. But that is just part of their problem. Fed up with hazing deaths, boozy parties, vandalism, rape, sexual harassment and acts of racial and ethnic intolerance, many schools are cracking down on fraternities and sororities -- or simply abolishing them. "They haven't kept pace with the times," says Stan Levy, vice chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The attitudes of the Greeks...
That reluctance to change has been traumatic for the fraternities at Vermont's Middlebury College. In January the school's trustees declared single-sex social organizations to be "antithetical to the mission of the college," and ordered Greek-letter groups to go coed or face elimination. Two fraternities now admit females. Last week, facing a final deadline, three pleaded for more time to persuade their national organizations to revoke century-old prohibitions against women. "The college is taking away a valuable option," laments Richard Cochran, 21, president of Chi Psi and a proponent of single-sex clubs. "Fraternities...