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Originally Posted by LadyBug103
I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College. Not ALL of these are Catholic based but the majority are, and it seems as though its consistent that they don't support greek orgs. due to many reasons, which I dont agree with.
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I went to Duquesne University, which was mentioned above as having social Greeks (and has had social Greeks since the early 1920s). I live in southcentral PA, and used to work at the national headquarters of a coed honor fraternity. One thing that may be preventing many of those schools from incorporating Greek life is student population size. Where I used to work, we [generally] would not consider starting a chapter at an institution with fewer than 3000 students. While the organizations discussed above are social and leadership-oriented (aside from the professional orgs mentioned at Gergetown), they also must consider the financial side of the organzation and its ability to thrive on a campus. Yes, fraternities too are businesses!
Oh, and many PSU branch campuses are two-year schools, precluding them from approval by many (not all, many!) national charters. However, PSU Harrisburg is now a four-year institution and is seriously contemplating bringing Greek life to that campus.