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also many countries that are in the commonwealth arrange their dorms as sort of like fraternities. If you go to South Africa, to get into residences, you need to apply before the membership committee of respected dorms. Most likely you will not get in unless your father or mother is was in the residence. (Hence the problem in University of STellenbosch where it is staunchly conservative and they let in token non-white to get the university of their back) They have initiation (or we call pledging) for the first year of your stay. I know that in STellenbosch, the university are trying to reform the system but it's being blocked by alumnis. Imagine pledging to live in the dormitories. They have something like homecomming (they call it venter), intramural between the reisdences (a very big rugby league, i belive most residence have 3 to 4 teams), they also have exeutive board, etc. Pretty much function like a fraternity.