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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the NESCACs have abolished fraternities.......Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, etc.[/quote]

But don't Amherst and Williams have underground frats and societies? I know Wesleyan does.[/quote]

Not really. Amherst has cracked down on fraternities pretty ruthlessly in recent years (including outright abolishing them in 2014- lots of articles on the matter). Opinions from students and alums are mixed, but on the whole negative because those groups were what gave Amherst its social life (their parties were open to all students regardless of involvement). In exchange, Amherst built the PowerHouse as the social hub of the college.

There is an athlete divide though- non-athletes and athletes don't really intermingle. 
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Amherst banned frats in 1984 (all frats were coed at the time).  A few of them hung on as underground frats for 2 decades but they've faded away and frats have practically zero presence on campus now.  Re: athlete-non athlete divide, it is present at most SLACs including Williams, Wesleyan and Swarthmore.  Because of the school's smaller student population, recruited athletes make up about 30% of the student body at each of these schools.  Amherst is the only school to publish a public paper about it a few years ago. [/quote]

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