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[quote=Anonymous]I went to grad school in the south following an undergraduate degree at a school without fraternities/sororities.

There may have been benefits for the undergrads who joined, but I mostly saw the downsides.

During the years I was there, each year rush started and was immediately followed by rush violations. When the groups involved (usually fraternities) were sanctioned, they, and their alumni, published anguished letters in the school paper about how they didn't mean to do anything wrong, the punishment was too harsh, and the administration didn't understand what it means to be Greek.

At southern schools, in general, and mine, in particular, the Greeks dress and take dates to the football games. They have their own sections. They "pre-game" and arrive hammered. After the game, the Greek section of the stands was frequently littered with the bodies of over-dressed, over-liquored students who sipped from flasks smuggled in.

Each year there were events involving alcohol and, in one case, homemade napalm, that resulted in students going to the hospital. See http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/3/5/campus-watch-pfraternities-around-the-country/

I'm sure there were good reasons to join, but looking at the Greeks from the outside, I never saw them. [/quote]

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