Are there fraternities at boston college

The emergence of new fraternities over the years is made clear from articles published in issues up to in The Heights. Many fraternities, including Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Kappa Psi, were geared toward business and marketing, and limited their memberships by major study. Evident from claims made in the March 17, issue of The Heights , though, the dominance of business fraternities at BC seemed to have diminished over the years and other fraternities still existing appeared to be under scrutiny for reasons involving racial concerns and disturbance complaints.

This led to an administration meeting with representatives from the all-black membership fraternities in order to attempt to combat some of the myths surrounding fraternities and the pressing issues that that had been brought up by other residents on campus.

In fraternities or Greek life at BC was no longer present. This is implied from an article on April 7, from The Heights that advocated off-campus fraternities in response to the lack of Greek life on campus.

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Dorothy Cucci. And we're also right across from the bus stop, which is unfortunate. If we have space inside, come in.

We are not bound by lame codes and stand-offish and exclusivity like today's frats. Joseph's University in Philadelphia however, is the only east coast Jesuit University to have a formal Greek system. BC's administration feels that fraternities and sororities are, as Sherwood said, "inherently discriminatory. Many students agree that fraternities and sororities are discriminatory and homogenous. The most prevalent pro in the eyes of BC students is the social atmosphere. It breeds alcoholism.