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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale. There are a few fraternities and sororities, but no one cares. [/quote]

Yup. Harvard, too. And Princeton has eating clubs, no fraternities, does that count? Also MIT and Chicago - periphery frats, no one cares.[/quote]

Actually, looking st my list, it occurs to me, probably none of the top 10 or so schools have a big fraternity presence. [/quote]

Actually, eating clubs at Princeton operate just like frats in terms of their impact on social life.  [/quote]

No, the eating clubs are not just like frats.  However, they still are significant in upperclass social life, particularly as they are the main dining option for juniors and seniors there.  (My own view is they are too significant, but unfortunately that ship sailed about 25 years ago when some all-male, selective clubs went co-ed, thereby strengthening and perpetuating the selective "bicker" (or rush) aspect of the club scene.).  At the same time, the clubs don't have quite the drinking (or the hazing) culture of many frats at other schools.  There are also more viable options to the eating clubs than once existed, but alas, they remain pretty central.[/quote]

My DH went to Princeton and my nephew is currently a student there.  Both were/are members of an eating club.  [b]The eating clubs operate like frats in that bicker is an exclusive process in which students make judgments of others based on physical appearance and social capital.[/b]  And the drinking scene is just as bad as that at other schools, including Dartmouth, where said nephew's brother is a student.       [/quote]

That sounds horrendous.  I can't see the appeal at all.[/quote]

Half the clubs are bicker and the other are open sign in/lottery.  Whether one likes or opposes bicker is like the classic red-blue ideological divide -- most people have very strong opinions.[/quote]

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