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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Greek life dropped 50% between 2020-2023 and continues to decline. It’s a vestige of the past.

1. Changing attitudes - students rejecting groups that seek to divide rather than unite, rejecting racist exclusionary practices, and overall less interested in the extreme drunkenness, date rape, and predatory hazing that previous generations reveled in.

2. College cost. If you are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, engaging in something that could get you kicked out, or perform poorly academically if not flying with parents anymore.

3. Competitiveness of admissions. The Greek life always attracted the good but not stellar or lower achieving students. Those kids aren’t getting in anymore. Kids with an eye toward graduate medical, law school or even business school can’t afford to waste time or risk their GPA in these activities. Gone are the days of the 2.5 or 3.0 frat guy getting into a good law or MBA program.

4. Increased regulation and oversight. The string of deaths along WTH everything being captured on phone cameras is too big a liability for schools to ignore.

5. Demographic changes. Asians, Latinos ,and international students now make a sizable portion of many groups. These groups along with FGLI students have little interest and would be excluded anyway from Greek life. As Greek life is primarily a white culture thing as white enrollment drops so does Greek enrollment. If it’s no longer something that all the students want to get into, it loses its desirability. [/quote]

Just so we're clear, and for the benefit of the blind posters, you're in the "negative" column, not the "neutral" column, right? 
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