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if it wasn't up to the fellow students to encourage each other to stay in school, then there would be no need for collegiate fraternities and sororities, especially NPHC ones.
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We'll just have to agree to disagree - fellow students were not responsible for me I was to myself and to my mother who took out beaucoup loans for em to be able to go. Yes when I was messing up it was my friends who would step to me and say hey girl get it together but its totally not up to students to take on parenting thier peers.
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Students today are overly concerned (IMO) with GPA's and the focus has contributed to over inflated grades as oppossed to genuinely well rounded students who are involved with a couple of orgs and maintaing a B+/A- avg.
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This was in response to those recent grads that I've spoken to who did extremely well in undergrad but never attempted to pursue membership because of the fear that joining an org would make their grades drop. Its a bunch of bull to me. If you are about maintaining your grades you will do it - to not be involved with anything beyond your immediate self (ie I'm only involved with career oriented club that will help me network) is a choice but don't use your gpa as the excuse. A 4.0 but no extracurricular activities at all does not impress me. I'd rather deal with the person who took time to be involved.
The last section you quoted of mine refers to those that always say "the greeks do nothing on their campus"...again I say if they were really doing absolutely nothing then they would die out (like bad or poorly run chapters do). But if you mean that the members didn't walk up to your dorm room, walk you to the library and make sure that you studied, give you wake up calls to get to class, personally request your attendance at events, hand you the application, fill it out for you and impress upon you a sense of community outside of your immediate personal gratification then yeah maybe you're right - they aren't doing a damn thing - let em all fall apart.
But I've found statements like these are usually made by the uninvolved and uninformed. Not all schools are the same and unless you are dealling with various universities & interact with different chapters/regions its foolish IN 2005 to continue to place blame on an entire system based on your interaction with ONE person or even chapter.