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See my problem with the whole situation I guess is sort of complicated...because of the structure of my University, which is 9 colleges all on one campus...each having their own govering bodies, own rules and own reputations Greek Life can be a tricky matter. I am a printmaking major at the Hartford Art School, which is a small school, but ranks right up their with RISD, Parsons and FIT, and printmaking is out number one ranked major, meaning it is the number one school for print in the country. Yes it is a huge time commitment, many people from other majors often really do not understand the time that goes into a conservatory major. My classes are twice as long, twice as often and have twice as much outside work as my engineering roomates who has a damm hard major herself. Despite this I am VP of New Member Ed of my chapter, the art schools Senator in my universitys SGA, and I am on e-boards of two other organizations on my campus. I still manage to makes deans list and get all of my stuff done. Its called multi-tasking and everyone can do it. I am not an over achiever or anything like that, but as a 20 year old I feel like people should be able to manage their time. Now as freshmen in the art school you go throught a program called foundations which is very difficult which is to weed out undedicated artists and I understand they feel that maybe greek life isnt the best choice at the time, but they never say, ok you made it through freshmen year now feel free to join, its just always left at, art students dont join greek life. Because of my Senatorship I come in contact with the freshmen on a weekly basis and they really all have it in their heads that they should only be doing art, that Greek like is a distraction to their education instead of something to supliment it. And yes to the question does the dean really say dont join greek like...he does say exactly that at art school orentation...its crazy
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