"Best" Colleges and their Greek Systems

[Low C Sharp]

Dartmouth and Cornell, the most Greek-friendly Ivies, have strong old locals that stand arm-in-arm with the national houses to a degree that I think is quite unusual. Both schools, especially Dartmouth, have a long and proud tradition of national Greek houses defying racial and religious restrictions as early as the mid-1950s, and of abandoning their national organization when it ordered them to depledge a diverse member. Some of these houses have since rejoined the nationals, and others remain local.
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[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Dartmouth and Cornell, the most Greek-friendly Ivies, have strong old locals that stand arm-in-arm with the national houses to a degree that I think is quite unusual. Both schools, especially Dartmouth, have a long and proud tradition of national Greek houses defying racial and religious restrictions as early as the mid-1950s, and of abandoning their national organization when it ordered them to depledge a diverse member. Some of these houses have since rejoined the nationals, and others remain local.

That's not just Cornell and Dartmouth--Brown was very vocal (both students and administrators) in addressing the discriminatory clauses that several of the fraternities had. Many had shed them in the postwar era, but there were still a few.