Official end of Greek Life @ Dartmouth

[33girl]

Tom - PC = Politically Correct. I.E. going to ridiculous lengths to not offend anyone. Unless they're rich white males. Then you can beat them over the head with a brick. Check out "PCU" the next time it's on FX - it's funny, but some parts are so true to life it's kinda not funny.

Leslie - recognition by the college or university gives you several advantages. You can use on-campus buildings, you (or more likely, the IFC/Panhel) receives $$ from the student activities fund, and you can advertise and hold your events on campus. Also (but not so much anymore) the college might step in to CYA if you get in trouble.

I don't think recognition will matter at Dartmouth, because the Greeks are around 50% of students, and most students who aren't Greek aren't anti cause all the parties are open. Plus they've got enough $$$ and alumni support to keep it going even if they have to move all their houses to a neighboring town. There's an article on DKE's website in the news section (they have a lot of good stuff on things like this, by the way) where a Middlebury alum said that even though the administration "banned" fraternities, they are still going strong.

Like KSig said, all I have seen on this issue is that they got rid of bars and kegerators. Just a bunch of BS PR.

[straightBOS]

Originally posted by BSUPhiSig'92:
I find it truly ironic that the faculty at Dartmouth's main argument in condemning greek life is that it is an "exclusive" and "discriminatory" institution. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Dartmouth is one of the so-called "Ivy League" schools. By its very nature it is exclusive and discriminatory. Of course most of the greeks are white and affluent, most of its students are! I often have found that the most exclusive, elitist and discriminatory group are the faculty. They are guilty of intellectual elitism and frequently discriminate against students solely on the basis of their membership in a fraternity or sorority. It also seems that some of them view greeks through the cloud of 60's anti-establishment thinking, seeing greek life as some sort of conservative endoctrination program. It makes me glad that I work at a state university where there are constitutional protections against such actions.

I couldn't agree with you more.

[MuAZD]

I've also heard rumors about LaSalle going the same route as Dartmouth (ending Greek Life). I was wondering if anyone else has heard about this, or am I just hearing things. Thanks!

[Billy Optimist]

I can't believe some of the $%!^ that people come up with. The Greek system is mostly made up of white and affluent people??? DARTMOUTH is mostly made up of white and affluent people!!!!
So...are the fraterties there sub-rosa? Do they still have national letters?

[tcsparky]

I was just wondering if anyone knew how many times the Dartmouth administration had approached NPHC groups, or multi-cultural sororities abour expansion to their campus? Unless they were just plainly anti-Greek, it wouldn't make sense to condemn the current system as being elitist and discriminatory without making an effort to bring in other groups. Or perhaps, since they are DARTMOUTH they don't feel they need to make sense........?

[33girl]

tcsparky-

Dartmouth already has chapters of AKA, DST, Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi, plus Lambda Upsilon Lambda, which is a national Latino fraternity. They also have 5 co-ed fraternities, most of which I believe have houses. The options are there - it's just that according to Dartmouth's administration, they're not the "right" options. They want to have "theme houses" which to me is just as, if not more discriminatory than they are accusing Greeks of being. Their major gripe against the Greek system is that the students socialize the way they want to socialize, not the way the administration wants them to socialize.

Currently, there is a moratorium on ANY new Greek organizations, so if the male-female ratio is unbalanced or a multicultural org would like to expand there and cannot, it's firstly the administration's fault.

Here is a cool link to follow: http://www.dartmouth.edu/student/cfs/alpha-theta

They have a history of the whole Greek system at the school. As it shows, the Dartmouth students took a stand against the nationals that still had "white clauses" in their bylaws, and disaffiliated if need be in protest. How many other Greek systems at the time could say that?