A Perspective On The Greek System

Rel­e­vant Mag­a­zine just ran an arti­cle on the social Greek sys­tem (as opposed to the hon­ors Greek sys­tem) — Soror­i­ties and Fra­ter­ni­ties: Take Em or Leave Em?.

The Greek sys­tem isn’t very pop­u­lar here at Stan­ford, but if you’re con­sid­er­ing it you might want to read the arti­cle. It comes at the Greeks from a fair­ly pos­i­tive per­spec­tive: Fra­ter­ni­ty and soror­i­ty life has a rather noto­ri­ous rep­u­ta­tion and his­to­ry on many col­lege cam­pus­es, some good, most bad. They are rep­u­ta­tions dri­ven by the hor­ror of trag­ic head­lines and the laugh­able pranks of John Belushi in Ani­mal House. In fact, Greek life is often a tale of two lifestyles: one accept­able and one trag­i­cal­ly degen­er­a­tive.

P.S. Be sure to check out the read­ers’ com­ments at the bot­tom of the article–they’re real­ly inter­est­ing!