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Faculties / professors
It's not just Greeks they hate. Most faculties would vote to eliminate football, if they had the power to do it. It's not true of all professors - probably not even most - but there is a culture within universities, fueled by the remanents of the Viet-Nam era students who hid out in graduate school and then opted to stay on in the Tower, and protected by the unfortunate anachronism of Tenure. Outspoken faculty tend to be anti-greek, anti-(big time) athletics, and anti-anything that interferes with the idyllic, left wing fantasy world within which they have wrapped themselves for the last forty years. The faculty has influence, but they have no power to eliminate Greeks, no matter how many votes they take. It is against the law for an administration to do so on a public campus, and under the 1998 law, it may be illegal to do so on private campuses as well. But, they can bully, and raise hell, and issue bogus 'studies' and manifests and generally try to make life miserable for the students who are the achievers and future business and professional leaders. These faculty don't like Greeks because they simply hate the traditional, conservative culture that created these organizations. The solution is for alumni to organize and move to protect their chapters' legal standing, to counsel and advise the chapters on appropriate behavior, and to make their case directly to the university admninistrations which have responsibility for the financial well-being of the institutions.
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