<p>SMU Greeks are great at burying their head in the sand and staying uninvolved so they don’t dirty their hands. Greek letters there are just a status symbol… it was part of my justification for not going to SMU. Although I might be kind of biased since I thought SMU was just too damn close to home! lol</p>
<p>Bigredmed, I wholeheartedly agree with everything that you were saying. I didn’t want to be so bold as to suggest deferred rush as a ploy to put the Greeks down and minimize their influence, but that’s really all it is. You will almost never see it at a school whose president was Greek. At schools where the president was a GDI (god-damn independent) you almost always see deferred rush, among other strategies…probably aimed at hurting the Greek Community and minimizing their campus impact.</p>
<p>What the rule would seem to do…and has done at OU and other similar schools is that the campus leader-types are too busy by the time they are even eligible to rush. It’s great at diminishing the influence of the fraternities. At these schools the Greek scene is usually a joke, and they never have the campus leadership types. At schools where Greek houses are free to recruit someone as soon as they are admitted to the school you see that those Greek communities are the ones that have campus leaders and emphasize leadership skills and campus involvement…because they’re able to go after all of the good students before they’re too busy.</p>