You know, the whole greek thing is funny on my campus.
Overall:
Fraternities are being rung out by the university.
Sororities could not be stronger!
BTW: Annual step show is SOLD OUT+ every year. You will see a lot of the MGC groups there, some people from the PNC, and very few IFC.
No one hates anyone else, there is just this distinct division. Granted, many of the orgs on campus have history going on 75 years + at that school for NPC and IFC. Houses make a big exporsure difference too, I think. Since all the greek houses are on campus, people see them very often. (Even I live in the Fraternity Quads - small dorm.) It is hard to break into that. Some of the Multi-cultural orgs. are extremely cliquish(w/hazing) and by doing so harm the others who are not. Since the NPC and IFC orgs are larger numbers per group, there is a more heavily enforced regulation.
Scenario: 30 XYZ pledges are hazed and 8 ABC pledges are hazed. It is a lot easier to get 1 XYZ to tell than 1 ABC based purely on numbers.
A lot of the *hush* is not just D9 stuff - or even the secrecy.
Its really a number run IMO.
i.e. They are smaller. there has to be a reason why they are smaller, must be hiding something, something weird must be going on.
Not to mention the prejudices/experiences of some people's parents that were in college 20-30 years ago (two way street - remember).
Org's will never be looked at the same way b/c they are inherently different (from their beginning) anyway...
