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W&L is for the most part completely controlled by Greeks, but this is basically a function of the fact that like 85% of the student body is Greek. There are certainly non-Greeks in positions of leadership. To some degree it depends on the organization.
I would say that 9 times out of 10 members of the Executive Committee (EC) and Student Judicial Committee (W&L's two major forms of student governance) are Greek. I can think of some instances where this was not the case. The one that's coming to my mind, though, is of a woman who was my class's representative to the EC for three years. We all presumed she would run EC President as a senior but she ended up not running at all. She was elected as a non-Greek (elections were held in the fall before freshmen pledge) and pledged a sorority. But she had disaffiliated with said sorority by the time she was a junior...
This is pretty pitiful, but I think for a while it was harder to get elected as a woman than as a non-Greek. Although by my senior year the gender thing seemed to be working itself out (finally). This is in part due to the fact that the early 2000s saw the advent of the first 50-50 classes.
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