Inside Greek U

by Alan D. DeSantis

"One in ten American college students joins a fraternity or sorority, and Greek social organizations produce a disproportionately large percentage of power brokers in business and politics. Statistics show that while these future leaders are on campus, they are much more likely than non-Greek students to engage in binge drinking and to be either the perpetrators or victims of sexual assault. In Inside Greek U., Alan D. DeSantis takes an in-depth look at the lessons that Greek organizations teach their members about gender, drawing on evidence gathered in hundreds of focus-group sessions and personal interviews and from his years of experience as a Greek faculty advisor. Inside Greek U. reveals a Greek culture that imbues its members with the sense that ""real men"" must be unemotional, promiscuous, violent, and aggressively masculine, while ""nice girls"" should be nurturing, passive, domestic, and purely feminine. These rigid formulations contribute to maladaptive behaviors and belief