THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL 28t 1903 THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL 28. 1963 ROTHERHOOD VS. SNOBBERY: Fraternities Draw Praise, Criticism from U.S. Student Bodies (Continued from Page 2) for the organizational man," Pres- ident John. Millett of Miami Uni- versity of Ohio says. "I happen to think that ti... is useful rather than harmful.", But any one who concludes all Greeks think, act and look alike right down to their dirty white bucks risks the embarrassment of Jan Garrett, president of the MSU Young Socialists. He is convinced today's Greeks are tomorrow's "organizational bureaucrats" but has to live with the unsettling fact that a recent leader of the group was a sorority girl. For certainly 7 million Greeks can't all be snobbish, 3-button suit, no-padded-shoulder copies of each other.. They are probably as diverse as 7 million plumbers or' bank vice-presidents. What wor- ries some of their critics is that de- spite their diversity they too often speak in one voice-or not at all. As a group they seem to have sur- prisingly little to say publicly on national issues, one way or anoth- er. Yet this silence can sometimes be deceptive. When the University of Georgia integrated two years ago the fraternities did nothing other than increase study hall hours. This was not, as might be viewed from certain northern points, failure to speak out but an effort to avoid the violence that came later to Oxford, Miss. Despite the heckling of the an- ti-Greek chorus, fraternities are not unwanted. On the contrary. A national survey of college deans showed they would like to have 500 more fraternity chapters add- ed in the next five years. A build- ing boom is already under way.. At Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, which has 54 chapters, fra- ternities have spent $1.16 million on construction and repair in the last two years. Arizona State re- cently completed new fraternity construction totaling $2.5 million. Stanford has Just completed a $11. million fraternity quadrangle and has begun another-with outdoor barbecue pits for each house. Serves as Housing This means desperately needed housing--usually at private ex- pense-for colleges facing the swift swelling of enrollment. And the enrollment itself means more members for the fraternities to help meet their own rising costs. But money and barbecue pits will not be the saving of the fra- ternity system. The growing chal- lenge before them today is to prove they are a desirable adjunct to the educational process, a chal- lenge the Greeks are beginning to respond to. "Once the classes are out and the students go over the hill, we feel we've lost them," a Williams professors says. "I think there are some Chi Psi's who don't ever leave the house except for classes. They're so happy just being Chi Psi's." Off-Campus It was to break down this in-' sularity, primarily, that Williams decided after years of wrestling with the fraternity issue to order the houses off campus effective by 1966. They will be replaced by so- cial units of 100 students or so which will house and feed their residents, provide besides social facilities for beer and cheer-cul- ture. A unit, for instance, might havef a chamber music recital after din- ner or a professor living in the building or an art exhibition in the commons room. "Even if the student was tone deaf and hated art he'd at least have to look at a! picture or hear a few notes on his way out the door," the profes- sor said. Angry alumni charged Williams with playing big brother. One irate Graduate even compared the sys- tem to the Chinese communes. Many Greeks feel Williams has turned off the mainstream of American college life and is head- ed over the waterfalls. Yet a size- able number of schools have writ- ten Williams for details about its perilous experiment and are watching closely to see how it will come out. Others are doing more than watching. Ultimate Ultimatum Brown has told its fraternities to get their marks up or get out. Bowdoin, still pro-fraternity, none- theless thinks its seniors would do better to live away from the fra- ternities in a more academic at- mosphere and is building a 14- story un-ivory tower-the tallest New England building north of Boston-to accommodate them. These scattered reforms don't yet form a definite trend. Nor do they indicate the fraternity on the whole hasn't done well. They indi- cate some educators want it to do better. They feel the fraternities' po- tential is great: To expand their philosophy of brother-help-broth- er from the social to the academic realm, to add lectures by visiting speakers, good library facilities and even resident professors to stim- ulate thought and conversation in a uniquely relaxed atmosphere. The 'U' at Last "We are almost yearning for them to succeed," a University administrator in Ann Arbor said. And the Greeks can point jus- tifiably to their long history of teaching self-government to the nation's youth: To making, at their best, substantial government to their members' social develop- ment: And to serving as a focus to school loyalty and spirit. While it is under pressure, the decline and fall of the Greek em- pire is not yet. ONLY FOR THOSE Seeking The Unusual CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY Pendants Jade --Garnet-- Ebony Pierced Earrings FOLK ART Wall Hangings Carvings HANDMADE Rings -- Bracelets All Kinds of Things at... LAKE'S ART SHOP 211 S. 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