<p>Greek life is not the center of social life at Furman. The FUSAB is probably just as visible. Athletics and music are also big there, too.</p>
<p>As and for drinking, I mentioned in a PM about a school in the midwest a friend visited. The real reason the young lady rejected that school was because her hostess for her overnight left on a Friday to go to a party and didn’t return until Sunday AM still hungover. My D said she saw more drunk kids at one of the big Ivies than she did at a school “known” for drinking. if you reread what the previous poster said, you’ll see it is not a condemnation of greeks, nor a suggestion that Furman has a particularly “active” drinking population. Having been on faculty at a private university, I would suggest that drinking is far less of a problem at Furman that at most other schools…and by far. Wherever you have young people away from parents, you have drinking. The question becomes, does the general school population encourage it or is the school environment/climate conducive to drinking? Furman is not a very conducive environment, but nowhere (even the service academies) can administration control student behavior off campus (and there are no Greek buildings on Furman to for the university to govern).</p>
<p>Note the remark about academic rigor. This is an often overlooked element at Furman. Classes are NOT easy.</p>