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>How many of those randomly placed roommates stay close if they have nothing in common?
Actually, most of them do. Most Harvard freshmen choose to stay with their freshman roommates when the enter the house lottery. The houses at Harvard and colleges at Yale are randomly assigned, but there's a tremendous amount of house unity and spirit at both schools. Each house/college serves as a microcosm of the university.
>Obviously he doesn't realize that Greeks are usually the MOST involved students on campus and almost all members participate in other campus activities.
The dean is correct when it comes to his own school. One way the Ivy Leagues (and Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in particular) differ from other schools is that it's absolutely unheard of not to be heavily involved in extracurricular activities. Everyone does sports, community service, politics, performing arts, student government, journalism, etc. Virtually everyone except varsity athletes has several of these extracurricular commitments. Since everyone is active already, time devoted to Greek life necessarily cuts into the time available to work on other activities; if Greek leaders didn't have chapter responsibilities, they'd be able to take on more campus-wide roles.
Where the Dean and Greekchatters differ is whether it's a good thing that these students are running rush instead of joining a recognized organization as their third or fourth activity. But you can't deny that it does take time.
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