Reply to Vanderbilt Thriving In Trump Era With Apolitical Atmosphere: Bloomberg

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Vanderbilt Thriving In Trump Era With Apolitical Atmosphere: Bloomberg"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Regarding duke, it's still top on many kids lists. But as a parent, a few things stood out. Duke is trying to create a college-house system and get rid of greek life.
  I didn't like the fact that freshmen live on a different campus a bus ride away from classes and main campus. Also, Duke pushed greek orgs off campus so we hear that parties are now held in fields and are a bus ride away? Maybe it's fine, but doesn't sound great to me. Duke has great basketball but Durham isn't that interesting and not easily accessible to other cities. [/quote]

From what I understand, [b]Duke is actively selecting for students that wouldn't be into Greek Life [/b]and as a result interest in fraternities and soririties has plummetted among freshman this year[/quote]

Hmmm. What’s your source? And how would they possibly assess this? Are there specific traits unique to the small percentage of Duke kids who choose Greek Life that the rest of the kids don’t share?

And on the flip side, are there other traits they’re actively selecting for instead? Like traits they think are contrary to interest in Greek life?

I’m not trying to be argumentative. I’m a Duke alum who was in a sorority. We were a diverse bunch (“we” being all the kids who rushed sororities abd fraternities.) So I’m genuinely curious how a school like Duke could try to select for this variable (anti-Greek).

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics