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Show The Swinyard Are Fraternities Really StagpJft to learn the practical information informa-tion than in a Greek oriented system. The fraternity system also assisted the universities and colleges with their housing problems. Because of their ideal situation, fraternities were able to take much of the load of housing off of adminis-traive adminis-traive hands. Many years after af-ter the founding of the first fraternity, chapter houses were a commonplace thing. Even today, without chapter houses some campuses would be in a real bind for housing facilities, take this campus as an illustration. Since their beginning, the Greek system has been a bad omen to higher education. Through many of their programs; pro-grams; such as study tables, scholarship seminars, qualifying qualify-ing grade points for various activities; the fraternity has done nothing to supplement a real college education. Through pledge education on manners, .!ocial. inrumW; rS and So on, th, 'Vcoui tem bee,'.", i . To those. !A! that ; - faults of the G- ! be knn; ii rr done more to : V education thar WB By Steve Swinney The Greek system is a "dinosaur" "di-nosaur" culture that is unwilling unwill-ing to change with the times. From tl.2ir beginning this system sys-tem has proved to be of little benefit to the institutions of which they are a part. Very rarely have they done much to change the culture of the various campuses, this is why there are 40 strong national na-tional fraternities in the United States (not including local fraternities fra-ternities and the like), and over 3200 fraternity chapters throughout America (this information in-formation was taken from the Statistical Opinion Research Company of Long Beach, California). Cal-ifornia). Through the years the fraternity fra-ternity system has helped institutions in-stitutions of high learning very little. They started as organizations organ-izations benefiting scholarship. In many of the programs that early fraternities initiated scholarship was the prime objective. ob-jective. During the early curricula cur-ricula of the United States emphasis on the Classics was great, there was no better way |