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.
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