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Originally posted by 33girl
When you talk about small campuses that are overwhelmingly Greek (DePauw or W&L are the 2 that spring to mind) often there isn't anything else to do nearby, and the student body is largely affluent and has the $$$ for Greek life. That certainly isn't the case at every small campus. Plus, is it that Greek life is really attractive to all the people that join, or do they feel that if they don't, they won't have a social life?
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I can state that at W&L, the situation is that there is nothing to do in town. With a campus of 35,000, by the very nature of it, you're going to have a lot of entertainment industry spring up to cater to college students. This isn't necessarily so in a small town campus of 1700. Basically, at W&L, if you're non-Greek, you have to work damn hard to have any modicum of social life (particularly as a male).
One problem that does arise on this kind of campus is with COB! A lot of times all the quality, interested people are already taken! So when nationals pushes COB, COB, COB, you are faced with a choice that groups at big schools with a constant supply of potential members never face.