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Originally posted by 33girl
Aww. RIP Pip.
And I think ktsnake is right - a lot of the times the "top" schools don't want Greek life and if they don't outright ban it, they discourage it. Guys can choose to come and start a colony if they want, but it's different for NPCs. But I can see the thinking of "do I want to go to Colgate and have to fight the administration constantly, or do I want to go to JustTurnedIntoAUniversity U, where they are ASKING us to come in?"
It's like the lack of participation by the more traditionally elitist schools is forcing Greeks to be less elitist if they want to survive....only for them to be called "elitist" by the nonGreek students at the antielitist schools they colonize at.
I'm going to walk away from this thread, come back later (after a Frappacino maybe) and see if that makes sense.
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Sororities are a different ballgame, I understand that. But even 2 or 3 sororities could couple up with at least 10 fraternities on a small top tier campus. The administration may be hostile at times, but hey party schools like Colorado and Indiana don't seem to be friendly to them these days either. From what I've seen sororities rarely worry about administration hostility at these schools, because they're not exposed to the same risks and play by the admin rules no matter what. At UChicago, the sororities bent over backwards for the admin while the fraternities refused to release membership lists and brought lawyers and alumni to meetings with admin when they tried to crack the proverbial whip.
You will never get huge chapters at these schools but that's not important. You are working with a much stronger student population to begin with. To say you want the best of the best and to encourage these great values is not believable if you are ignoring these good schools for party schools where often there is news of pledges that are tortured and events revolving around the whether a beer bong is preferable to shotgunning.
Again, I'm not saying that the top tier schools won't have their share of problems or that lower tier schools are all full of problems. I think that Greeks do well at certain top tier schools and it's sad to ignore them for the sake of growing at questionable schools.
-Rudey