Dear Fred,
You sound like the Boo Radley of your neighborhood! I attend a private baptist university, and we are not allowed to have Greek housing. It's good in the aspect that it promotes living with people in other sororities/fraternities. But, we have always felt that we were missing out. Baylor thinks that Greek housing would promote big alcohol bashes, and everything else that comes along with the stereotypical greek system.
Greek housing provides a meeting place for organizations to come together. It also prevents young girls from walking the streets late at night going from party to party in an unsafe neighborhood as they have to do here. My university is very beautiful, but located in a horrible part of town. To say that greeks sponsor hazing is a huge generalization. My national organization actually has workshops and seminars about the unfortunate topic of hazing. I agree with you that it is a horrible thing, yet the way to solve this is not to simply abolish organizations.
The way to solve it is through education. Thank you for your time, and good luck in your mission to discourage hazing from happening. I don't see you succeeding in abolishing the greek system. Too much money from alums of these organizations keeps our university's funded for new buildings and projects.
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