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<strong>Subject:</strong><br />Analysis of the Current Greek Life Scene (+Oak/DU)<br /><br /> Poster Message:
In light of the recent Maroon article, I think the Greek life scene is in need of a breakdown. Will go over the dynamics of the scene/culture as well as the current status of each fraternity. 1. Sexual assault - The notion that teenagers + alcohol in rowdy settings is a breeding ground for sexual assault is true. However, the notion that fraternities, in particular, promote this culture from within, is false. Every single fraternity has extremely strict zero-tolerance policies for sexual assault (including accusations) that mandate that at minimum any brother accused of sexual assault is removed from the fraternity until they can prove themselves innocent (with the burden of proof being upon the brother). It is quite literally a part of the pledging process to ensure that parties are a safe environment and to weed out anyone who may be a risk. With the amount of interaction between the fraternities and sororities, if brothers were regularly assaulting girls, a significant portion of those girls would be sorority girls, and if a brother assaulted a sister and wasn’t immediately removed from the chapter, they would instantly lose all relations to said sorority. At a school this liberal it is almost unthinkable that a sorority would dismiss a sister’s accusation and side with the fraternity. So yes, it happens and it’s terrible, but the narratives painted are unfair to 99% of Greek life. 2. Hazing - Aside from one particular action that happens toward the end of one particular fraternity’s process, there is absolutely nothing about any of the pledging processes at this school that poses any significant risk of long term physical or psychological trauma. Pledging is designed to suck, not scar. Sororities don’t haze A look at the fraternities and sororities When evaluating a chapter, the main thing that goes into what’s “top” and what’s “bottom” is who the chapter mixes with. That is to say, it’s relativistic, especially with sororities since they don’t do very much unilaterally. There are certain things that fraternities can do to boost their attractiveness to rushees (pledging, dues, amenities), which helps, in turn, to have better brothers. Better brothers means better sorority relations, boosting the chapter’s status. It’s a common trend that the top fraternities have, in this particular order of importance, 1. The hardest pledge processes, 2. The highest dues, 3. The nicest houses (though the bottom houses tend to have almost non existent houses, so a house is the biggest prerequisite to making it out of that tier). A hard pledging process being important is just as superficial as it sounds - It’s a battle of who’s less of a pussy and who wants to have friends that are equally less of pussies. High dues are important to pay for cool stuff but (perhaps more importantly) because of the Veblen effect, if something is expensive people will assume it is better. House quality importance is obvious. I’ll give the general tiering first and then elaborate on each chapter afterward in the comments Fraternities Top - Fiji, DU, Psi, Mid - Sigma Chi, Alpha Delt Bottom - AEPi, Pike, Zeta, everything else Sororities Top - Oak Upper Mid - AOII Lower Mid - DG, Pi Phi Bottom - Theta It’s generally very easy to get a bid at this school, which means bottom is REALLY bottom, so we’re going to skip evaluating everything below mid