Collin--great letter!
There is more sniping going on now re: Greek Life than I remember back in my day as well.
As an alum, I'm trying to stay on top of campus issues, since this is where my donations MAY be going (listen up, SAO....) and I'm recruiting new freshmen to campus from TX.
Here's my vision from the "other side" of graduation:
If more "specialty" housing were instituted, more students would have an incentive to stay on campus. Thus, improving relations w/ Allston-Brighton (the 2 small towns outside of campus where people usually head for their first apartments.) There is already special-interest housing on campus: Russian house, French house, environmental awareness house, etc, etc, etc. (FYI, I lived in "Limited Parietal House" - that was as close to a sorority house as anything got at BU in that day. All female house, limited hours for men, and we created our own activities in our own group, even as we were involved in campus.)
If you put Greek housing under that umbrella, not only would more people be interested in staying, but you'd have someone else adding to the risk-management oversight. Plus, it would open the door for other (insert special interest here) housing as well.
This is just a pipe dream at the moment, it would take some cash, planning, and some legal rangling to make it happen. But if it's possible for Greek life to re-evolve to its current state in the past 15 years, then anything's possible.
Adrienne (PNAM-2003)
