Show Fraternities Under Fire Once More Printed below is an editorial written by a editor and It concerns the- subject of Greek-letter fra- their pros and their The writer is frankly against for reasons which he outlines at some We believe that there is no time like the present to open up the subject on this Therefore we are printing his letter in its Along the same the Chronicle-Mortar Board sponsored Student Senate will discuss the subject at its next Any university student who has definite views on the subject or is urged to write the We are anxious to sample student opinion in this matter and will analyze the subject in next week's Hawthorne often implied in his short story parables that nothing mortal could be perfect It has been said a number of so taking authority at its there is no attempt here to create the illusion that all would be perfect with University of Utah social life if fraternities and sororities were banished from the campus But the lead has been tak- en against the fraternity-sorority institution by great and forward-thinking President Wood row Wilson spoke out against it at Princeton University a generation it will be concluded ahead of his time in much of his More people today see that his words were But die-hards sometimes need considerable prodding to give up the error which has grown dear to In our day the Life-Time-Fortune combine has struck out forcefully against the malignance of the fraternity-sorority system at American This voice has found it so much at fault that whatever opposition there might be in or out of the institution has been of the feeblest The evidence has been damning and many affiliated persons have publicly For the past ten years at the University of Utah fraternities and sororities have dominated extracurricular Seldom has an independent student body president been elected and only then when the domination has been so notorious that independent students were forced as a matter of self-respect to unite against Joe Dyer became president largely because the leadership the publications was energetically and knew a very black spade when it saw Independent students have always looked with nausea upon the office-seeking methods which fraternities and sororities Election day at the university is usually a but Fraternities commandeer cars to round up the It is considered sacrilege if an affiliate fails to vote for his organization's candidate to an And unbelievable as it may some people wounder why the vote is barely representative of the student body The fraternity-sorority institution does not stop at One year the Owl and Key honorary activity composed of Pi Kaps and Sigma Chi's in overwhelming voted into the Skull and Bones fraternity a group of their own dividing the spoils It created a scandal that the council and had a difficult time living The above have been external of the medieval practices of fraternities and The following are The black-balling practice has never been a source of joy to Fraternities and sororities exclude from their number those who perhaps are most in need of their help and include those who are not in need of these Fraternities and sororities have been the cause of personal tragedy in innumerable instances of The very existence of their closed organization is medieval and encourages class They have materially injured the scholarship at the university through In 1943 some fraternities maintained files of reports and papers that affiliates with little turn in as their own In little can be said in favor of fraternities and sororities and volumes in Let's face What does the average Utahn have against the University of He first of and with good that fraternities and sororities at the school have made snobs out of a lot of the that fraternities and sororities create a social atmosphere which does not assist serious those who have no time for it those who are out in the Little is by the existence of fraternities and much is lost because it never The average student at the university does not know what he is missing in the way of good social life that some other universities Slowly the country is getting rid of the fraternity-sorority The University of Utah now has the opportunity to assert its conviction against it and to establish a new social liberality where it has long been |