go greek???

Really? Must be a mom who went to a seven sisters. What a load of crap.

I am almost 60 yo and as an alum I can tell you for the last 80 years frats have been about social activities - principally parties with ladies and drinking/rowdiness. This is based on my experiences, my uncles' and dad's as well. Before then was prohibition. My knowledge for greek life is extensive having grown in charlottesville (major college town = UVA). I also went to grad school at Dartmouth and had friends at ivies and public ivies...and all the fraternities partied much bigger than they do now. Even in PA at our beloved Lehigh there were more houses and we drank more and partied more than the boys do now - remember the drinking age has been 21 since prohibition so its not a change in drinking ages that has changed the issue (no drinking age existed before prohibition). It is the new generation of helicopter moms.

So don't lie to the students that fraternity houses were not primarily social and party oriented. The only "prestigious" fraternities are groups like 7, skull and cross bones, flat hat, Sphinx, St. A's, Cadaver Society, IMP, PBK, ODK etc...these are usually very rich, very high academic achievers, or BMOCs.

Fraternities have been and continue to be primarily social in nature. Even the non-academic "prestigious" societies party very hard just secretly.

The problem with greek life today is threefold fold. The drinking age is too high (needs to be reduced to 16 for beer - but can't change that from here), the fraternities should be off campus without national affiliations - take universities out of the social life of college students - students can disaffiliate with nationals, and third students need to stop blasting everything on social media - discretion goes a long way to not getting caught.