Liberals Returning to an Old Target: Greek Life

Look at this garbage in by inbox this morning from the Chronicle of Higher Education:

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Several days after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed in police custody, Pi Beta Phi leaders penned what Abro felt was a meaningless, poorly worded statement acknowledging police brutality. She stepped in and helped draft a better version, but it wasn’t published until nearly two weeks after Floyd’s death. She took that as a sign that her sorority didn’t understand the gravity and importance of the moment.

In July, Abro and 17 other women of color wrote an “Open Letter of Group Disaffiliation,” in which they vowed to quit their sororities. The women said they had “been repeatedly disappointed by our chapters and their leadership members.

But at some campuses, the number of students quitting Greek life is striking. At Vanderbilt University, where about one-third of the institution’s 6,900 undergraduates are members, advocates for abolition say at least 250 students have committed to disaffiliating.

Many envision a gradual dissolving of the system: As more members leave and fewer join, chapters will shrink in size. Without a vibrant social scene, the thinking goes, Greek life will lose much of its appeal, and with it, its ability to perpetuate inequality in campus culture.