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Thanks, 33. I actually had stumbled across the Review site but just kept going b/c I couldn't tell when everything was from. I'll give it another look.
I am not defending anti-Greeks in any way ... but it seems to me that Greeks are easier to say are "discriminatory" because they have exact membership lists. Most campus groups have hard core members, more apathetic members, and that guy who showed up once. So who is a member and who isn't? And I bet the campus GLBA group would say, hey we welcome straight people, and the Christian groups we say, hey Buddhists are welcome to come to our meetings - whether or not in reality a Buddhist ever would! Greeks are just more up front and clear but about who their members are, and so that makes them stand out as targets for those who want to take on "elitism." Of course honor societies have firm members and non-members, but it's hard for a university, whose purpose is education, to say academic selectivity is a bad thing.
Personally, I think that students should be able form whatever kind of groups they want. If someone wants to start a group only for Asian men over 6 feet tall who play the kettle drum, or for white girls who plan to be trophy wives, let them. That doesn't mean I'll join, of course, or even that I would approve of their ideas. But, as everyone likes to say, it IS a free country.
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