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Universities have been setting up common houses/taking away living and dining functions from Greek Letter organizations since the 1920's to reduce the influence of GLO's. Harvard and Yale made all members live in University Housing and be on meal plans specifically to reduce GLO's. Get out a Baird's Manual and look at all the Fraternities that died at these two schools in the 1930's.
Williams took away houses in 1965, in 1968 they killed the Greek's. Amherst, Bowdon and Middlebury have followed suit.It is particularly worrisome that this trend of unhousing/killing Greek's is moving out of New England to New York IE Hamilton, Union and Alfred Colleges,Pennsylvania-Waynesburg, Ohio-Denison.
Another trend that worries me is Fraternities at elite schools in the south are beginning to go local IE Phi Delta Theta at UVA and U of The South and Kappa Sig and SAE at Duke. If you look very carefully at the collapse of the Greek system in New England in the 1950s to 1970s one of the first signs of decline was the tendancy of chapters to go local.
My International, DU, lost very good chapters at Amherst, Dartmouth ,Bowdoin, Wesleyan and Brown within a decade to the local trend, all these now local chapters eventually died or were killed by the host institutions. Every other old line national was hurt in the same way. I hope the same thing is not in its beginning stages at selective southern universities.
The move to unhose/ closely regulate the Greeks at Union is nothing more than a trojan horse for abolition of GLO's.