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That seems to be the consensus belief. Everyone I know says that. The funny thing is our school has been trying to do that for probably 3+ decades now and guess what? There are more Greek organizations on campus. In fact, more students than ever are joining fraternities and sororities nationwide. The admin should know that their most loyal alumni are Greek members. In fact, when it comes to donors, the majority of SDSU Greeks donate more to our school than non-Greeks.

We have what 'Bama and Mizzou has too - successful alumni, deep pockets, and political influence. I work part time for the SDSU Admin and Alumni Assoc. I've seen many documents that's probably confidential pertaining to our big donors. You seem to underestimate the influence of our wealthy alumni coz they have a strong pull on where and how certain projects are funded. Just coz SDSU isn't a traditional academic or athletic powerhouse doesn't mean we don't have what other more well-known schools have.

Every campus with Greek life has parties. In fact, Greek parties at schools with large Greek systems have bigger parties than SDSU. It's not the parties that's stopping the Greek system at SDSU from growing. It's the lack of partnership between our administration and the Greek system. All the negative news caused by Greeks overshadows all the positive things we've done and continue to do. 'Bama's Greek membership started growing significantly after the school decided to partner with its Greek system. All its freshman students with minimum 3.0 GPA are encouraged to rush. Girls who don't meet the minimum aren't allowed. Greek Life officials would even meet the families of potential students and talk to them about the benefits of joining a fraternity/sorority. Faculty members would also send recommendations to the Greek Affairs' office about some of their students who they think would be beneficial to fraternities/sororities.

Seriously? That’s your argument? I don’t know what cave you’ve been living in but every school with Greek life have tons of parties even at prestigious universities like Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Northwestern and the Ivy League schools. You make it sound as if Greek parties are exclusive to SDSU. The partying isn’t the problem but rather the anti-Greek atmosphere on campus. And that stems from the constant negative news generated by some fraternities/sororities. I think the majority of our professors don’t know how much of our Greek alum donates to school. If our Greek alumni decide to withhold their donation to SDSU, the percentage of donors would drop more than 60%. And the amount donated would also significantly decrease. That’s how much power and influence our Greek alumni have. Like I said in my initial comment, there’s a lot we can learn from Alabama and Mizzou and other schools with big Greek system so we can develop ours.