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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more important part of this story is the small but deliberate move towards a residential college system, like Harvard's and Yale's.  Brilliant move to put pressure on the frats/sororities to clean up their acts or they will be expelled and cease to be the central organizing principal for social life at the school. As the current frat/soror-loyal donor base dies off, I will bet you dollars-to-donuts that over the next 50 years the school moves the Greeks into the background.  This is the first step.  Identity of the undergrads, and eventually loyalty of the alumni, will be to Dartmouth first, residential college second, and Greek affiliation a fading third.[/quote]

Then you are suggesting a regression to a previous era will occur? Dartmouth used to have a very cohesive dorm based community system. One only has to look at the oldest dorms to find the displays of each dorms' triumphs in a robust intramural program that no longer exists in the same form or really any form amongst dorms today.

Frankly, having attended Dartmouth, participated in the Greek scene, etc. I never found hard alcohol to be the problem post-first year when it really was an issue because you weren't in the Greek scene, you were new to campus, didn't know upperclassmen, likely had little experience with copious amounts of alcohol, and didn't yet have good friends to watch your back. And my first year freshmen were banned from frats fall quarter which impacted the men more than the women to be honest.  Sure, hard alcohol was available at closed 'tails events and meetings after first year, but rarely did you attend an open frat party and find hard alcohol, save for a few speciality events - Reds, Saigon, Beach Party, etc. But as I understand it, batch punches were banned several years ago anyway. Mostly it was beer and lots of it. It was not uncommon for me and my friends to play 7+ games of pong in a night. If you want to get ragingly drunk, it will happen with whatever is available as it does on college campuses across the country. I think banning hard alcohol is just a bunch of white noise. [/quote]

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