Vol. LXXI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1970
No 86
SORORITIES AND FRATERNITIES:
alternative living system
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The last big news the sororities and fraternities made at
the University was in April 1967 when a group of “hippies”
staging a chalk-in on the EMU front steps were molested
by a group of fraternity men. The ensuing controversy was
enough to fill Emerald editorial pages for weeks.
What has happened in the following three years? Why
aren’t the Greeks big news any longer?
The statistics tell one answer, the students themselves
tell another. But the overriding opinion of anyone connected
with the sorority and fraternity system at this University
seems to be that the system is in a process of change.
Those houses that aren’t closing down (and there have
been seven in the past three years) are changing to a more
liberal life style.
The Greeks have discovered it difficult to maintain mem
bers in a cloistered, restricted atmosphere. Those affiliated
with brother and sisterhood have started to come into their
own as individuals.