Hundreds Call On Dartmouth To Overhaul Its Powerful Greek System

[SOM]

Hundreds of Dartmouth College students and alumni are proposing that the Ivy League school implement dramatic changes to, or even eliminate, the Greek system on campus.
As part of its ongoing effort to address concerns about the social climate on campus, Dartmouth has enlisted a committee of faculty, students and staff essentially to crowdsource reform, soliciting input online and in person from various stakeholders to find out what they would like to see changed.
The college received more feedback focused on the Greek system than on any other subject, including hundreds of suggestions that Dartmouth abolish fraternities and sororities. More than four times as many people suggested the Greek system was a problem than those who said it was not. In addition to the roughly 260 who said it should be abolished, dozens of others called on the college to increase regulation or to require all houses to go coed. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0..._content=Title

[33girl]

260 people out of how many alumni? Yes please, let's get right on that.

I like how the second thing is "more social spaces" which basically boils down to "places to drink at that aren't fraternity houses because we are in the middle of BFE."

Blah, blah, blah. Same old garbage that crops up there every 10 years or so. Not worth the thought.

[Mooch279]

Just the the Huffington Post trying to drive traffic tot he site. First reply on the article:

"Hmmm. Suggestions were received from "1,600 members of the Dartmouth community, close to 1,300 of whom were alumni." The Dartmouth community has over 6,000 active students and over 70,000 living alumni. That 260 people suggested abolishing the Greek system does not tell us much, don't you think? Do the opinions of 0.34% of our community have much weight? Do they merit a headline?"