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Thanks everyone for all the advice
Dubaisis: there are two schools geographically close (within 2-3 hours) that are of comparable size with large, healthy Greek systems and other DKE chapters. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to some data from these institutions (specifically gpa comparisons and graduation rates), but I’m really hoping for some sort of large sample size, high confidence interval study. As far as the reason for the ban, without boring anyone with a long history: local social societies existed at my institution for the majority of the 20th century, but went underground in the 70’s. My college never had any official policy on social societies until the early 2000’s when my chapter was founded, and the then-president and the then-dean of students were opposed to Greek life, and instituted a rather strict policy against all social clubs/organizations. The current president and current dean of students do not share the views of their respective predecessors, and feel that it may be the right time for the college to go Greek. The main obstacle lies in convincing the board of directors, which is largely unchanged from when the previous president shared his view of Greek life with them around 10 years ago. From what I’m told, the biggest two arguments used to detract from Greek life were lack of diversity, and hazing.
DrPhil: Thanks for the advice, I’ll be sure to include relevant information rom every umbrella group. If you were interested the school is predominantly white (Anglo-Saxon), with a significant Asian and African-American populations. I would foresee any successful system here having 2-3 NIC organizations, 3-4 NPC organizations, and 1-2 NPHC organizations based of current population.
DeltaBetaBaby: I had not actually thought of that, thanks! I just assumed that the NIC would be the only one that had a vested interest in this. I’ll be sure to end both the NPC and NPHC an e-mail today.
Senusret I: I cannot openly disclose my affiliation. It’s all rather political, really. The student body, faculty, and administration all know I’m a deke, but I can’t wear letters, submit community service done through DKE to the college, or in any other way flagrantly display my membership in a fraternity at this time. I feel that one of my strungest arguments is that the college has either been unable or unwilling to enforce its policy regarding social societies, which has fostered an atmosphere of completely unchecked, unregulated, underground local secret societies.
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