This whole discussion is so weird for me to hear because my school refuses to recognize the frats and sorors. We get no support what-so-ever. I'm not sure if we ever did even tho many of the chapters have been around for a hundred years at my school. This may be an ingorant question (it wouldn't be the first I've asked in this forum), but what exactly does that school do to support the greek system? I mean, other that regulatory controls, do they offer any sort of financial support? What would happen if, as on my campus, the chapters existed, independant of their school. We are technically known as the University of Toronto chapter of Gamma Phi Beta, but technically speaking, we are not. We're Gamma Phi Beta, filled with people who go to University of Toronto.
A strange thing about this (and definately unique to my campus) is that the sororities will only admit girls who go to the university (in spite of the lack of recognition) but many of the frats have different policies, some of whom let in men from the other university in the city, and some even allow in men from the colleges in the area. In fact, the one of the chapters (at least) on our campus is comprised mainly of NON university of Toronto students.
There is a huge amount of debate, every year, as to how we can go about getting the school to recognize the Greeks at our school. We try to point out that all of the 'issues' they have with the system, much if not exactly like those of Dartmouth, would be BETTER dealt with and BETTER monitored if school administration took an active role in ensuring that the university's standards are met by all houses. No dice. Will never happen. Every year we seek recogntion, every year we lobby, and every year we are told no. We won't give up but the fight is futile.
Yes, it is true, as I have said in other posts, that the greek community at U of T is very small compared to the school's poplution (60K thousand students, maybe 600 greeks). And it is possible that these small numbers are refelctive of the lack of administrative backing. Personally, I don't think so. I think that the people at my school are just lame. (they are. believe me). It's hard to know for sure if the school supported us, if those numbers would rise.
Is there a possibility that the houses at Darmouth could survive absent support of the school? If our houses can exist, why can't the houses at Dartmouth continue to exist?
Leslie
[This message has been edited by gphi2k (edited February 21, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by gphi2k (edited February 21, 2001).]
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