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I do beg to differ with the last two responses.
I do know a little something about PanHellinic and Greeklife in general, my wife was on Pan Hellenic at Vanderbilt (ADPI), my mother and both her sisters were DG's at OU , my sister in law was a Kappa. My Grandfather was an SAE at Dartmouth in the 1920's.
I also have reviewed Bairds Man. closely and have reviewed the Center for The Study of The College Fratenity Sight, I was alum chairman and pledge trainer for my chapter. I was my chapters represenative at our national convention were we passed dry rush over heated opposition(1986) , I seriously thought about becoming a leadership consultant after college before going to law school. In law school I lived next to a former traveling rep for Delta Gamma (Alpha Psi Chapter) and visited with her a lot about Greek Life. My major ongoing interest in Greek Life is observing the small group dynamic and supporting students rights to govern their own affairs. Greek Life is a good way for 18-22 year olds to manage organizations and develop a lifelong habit of community involvment: community involvment/ joining and creating voluntary organizations is good for America(IE Masons, Churches, Elks etc ).
My basic point is most individual sororities are bigger than individual fraternities but overall many more men affiliate ( these figures may be old but I recall in the early 90's 400,000 + men on campus were active in fraternities while sororities sat at about 250,000( I do know Fraternities have declined some since then). But more men are still active.
Why?
Economic Theory postulates that allowing a competitor to decide on your entry to the marketplace will necessarily result in an anticompetative/oligopolistic marketplace with very high barriers to entry.
This is why the situation at Georgia Tech bothers me, people should have a darn good reason before saying we don't want more greeks on campus.
Sororities do many good things, frankly I will be more supportive of my two daughters going through rush than my son, But clearly more men affiliate with Fraternities than women with Sororities because barriers to entry are higher, IE Formal Rush, Recomendations etc, PanHel having more control over their member chapters through unanimous agreements on rush
In my opinion,and according to classical economic theory adding more national sororities at Georgia Tech would cause rush numbers to increase.
Ladies I mean no offense, just my two cents! Food for thought? If Greek Life is a plus, shouldn't the doors be opend as wide as possible so more people can participate for both men and women? If a local wants to come on board let em, if they fail, well at least they had a shot.
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