Show I A Letter to the Editor Dear So the intramural debate question this year is the abolition of fraternities and in my opinion its a good question to It's about time we objectively analyzed these Greek-letter societies On the bulletin board opposite the Registrar's office in the Park building is an interesting survey of fraternity scholastic r- in a number of It is interesting to note that in practically every the scholastic average f rat men is below that of non-frat i- This would seem to indicate one of two either the fraternities tend select students of inferior mental or v. they take up so much of their members' time that the frat boys aren't able to keep up with the average In either it seems to their existence is The fraternities' answer to this is grades aren't everything look at the social development we But to sume that members of Greek-letter societies live a fuller social life f than they could otherwise is sheer dances and activities are not limited to fraternity and sorority And there are many organizations on the campus which provide as much social without the many disadvantages of fra The evils of the Greek-letter societies go much deeper than merely interference with In the there is a flagrant disregard of the principles of and when a girl emerges from such a group with democratic it is usually in spite and not because her sorority As one educator has and religious discrimination are integral parts of the sororities' diabolical caste In the Readers' Digest for there was an article by Glenn wife of the famous president of the University of in which she mentioned some of the disadvantages of sorority For thus daring to express her Frank was immediately expelled from her sorority Beta And this happened in a country where we say we believe in free speech But the thing that has done more than anything else to turn students from the Greek societies is not their of their or their interference with it is simply their The eminent Lincoln for joined a fraternity out of What were the secrets and mystic I went blindfold through the silly initiation to find that there were no secrets and no mysteries-only pretensions and which so disgusted me that I would not live at the frat preferring the open doors of a It is this extremely juvenile nature of fraternities which has caused a number of the more progressive such as to abolish And it is interesting to note that every college which has done so has found the move for has noticed a marked increase in school spirit since the abolition of fraternities three years The students now feel that the school is being run by not by a firmly entrenched clique of fraternity Other colleges are making higher education a grown-up Why don't Jack 1 |