i remember the MIT pledge death cause I was in high school at the time and MIT was known at my high school to be "frat party school" (that's not to say that it is a big party school, that was just it's reputation at my high school).
Anyways, when I worked in Brookline this summer I drove past some of the MIT fraternity houses on my way to work. They look like really nice brownstone houses. I wish we had such nice houses at my school
Good luck to all the houses at MIT and I hope deferred rush doesn't kill you guys. MIT seems to be one of the few Boston schools with a strong greek presence and I would hate to see that lost.