Go Greek or go home?

Georgetown College has several Greek organizations and they are very prevalent around campus. It seems that almost everyone on campus is a member of a Greek organization, excluding those students that are members of athletic teams. It seems, however, that there is a separation among the student body because of these “cliques”. If you walk into the cafeteria you know exactly whom a person is judging strictly by where they are sitting. Georgetown College is making a movement to improve the diversity of the college by recruiting a diverse group of new students, but what about the students that already go here? By no means are Greek organizations a bad thing; actually they do a lot in terms of charity and community service. However, the students that are members of them could do better job have branching out from their particular “clique” and meeting new people. Many people claim that they join a Greek organization in order to make new friends, but a small private college it is a lot easier to make new friends than at a state school. Greek organizations are not the only ones at fault here though, athletes also have trouble branching out from their comfort zone of friends and meeting new people. If all Georgetown students would branch out and meet some new people they might find out that they have been missing out on some great individuals that they could have been friends with all along.

By Alex Stewart