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    This document summarizes research conducted on Greek life at the University of Denver. It discusses how Greek life makes up about 25% of the student population but seems more prevalent. It also examines studies finding Greek life helps with connections, integration, and future career opportunities. To further understand the connections and benefits of Greek life, the author plans to interview Greek life members about their experiences and relationships within their sorority or fraternity.

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    This document summarizes research conducted on Greek life at the University of Denver. It discusses how Greek life makes up about 25% of the student population but seems more prevalent. It also examines studies finding Greek life helps with connections, integration, and future career opportunities. To further understand the connections and benefits of Greek life, the author plans to interview Greek life members about their experiences and relationships within their sorority or fraternity.

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    This document summarizes research conducted on Greek life at the University of Denver. It discusses how Greek life makes up about 25% of the student population but seems more prevalent. It also examines studies finding Greek life helps with connections, integration, and future career opportunities. To further understand the connections and benefits of Greek life, the author plans to interview Greek life members about their experiences and relationships within their sorority or fraternity.

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    Jennessa Lever

    4/25/11
    WRIT 1133
    Draft 2 of Qualitative Research Paper

    At the University of Denver, Greek Life makes up about 25% of the student
    population. However, it appears to be more than this. While walking across campus you
    are able to see many people not only sporting their greek letters, but also waving to each
    other, saying hello, and even engaging in full length conversations on the way to class.
    The people involved in greek life believe that they were given a bid and accepted into
    their respective fraternity or sorority because are of that personality type, and are similar
    in many ways to their brothers or sisters. However, many times the chapter is split, there
    appears to be an overall dynamic, but there is also the group that is rather wild and
    rowdy, and the side that is particularly a little calmer. The way the people were chosen
    has to do with who they were and their goals, but it could be attributed to the way they
    presented themselves in that particular situation. People often act differently when they
    are being judged or chosen.
    In looking into other studies people have conducted, or information gathered by
    others to determine if life in the Greek System helps people make connections they
    otherwise would not have, it is difficult to come to conclusions. However, I was able to
    find a few sources to compliment the research I did on the subject. The first was a study
    done at the University of Vermont by the Council of Greek Life on campus, and has to do
    with First-Generation College Students. It states that becoming a part of co-curricular
    activities, such as becoming involved in the Greek System, is something that can help a
    student be more academically and socially integrated into the campus. It also states that it
    is through the contacts that the student makes, that will continue to pressure them to reach
    their goals and fulfill their commitments. Also completed by a student affiliated with
    Greek Life was a paper written by Katharine Michal Newman at the University of
    Tennessee, who is affiliated with the sorority Delta Gamma. Her paper describes not only
    the many things (need better word) her sorority does, but also describes the valuable
    skills and attributes of Greek Life. She even states, “Probably the most important benefit
    of sorority life is the friendships created,” and, “Alumnae chapters and connections help
    women to find jobs and social connections almost everywhere they go across the United
    States and Canada.” This supports the theory that Greek Life can lead to success in the
    future through the bonds created. In my final source a book called, Inside Greek U:
    Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, Power, and Prestige by Alan D.
    DeSantis, the author examines what goes on in Greek Life, based on what he has seen in
    his many years as not only a professor, but also as an advisor to the Greek System. He
    uses facts to support his theories, for example, he states, “Greeks dominate the elite
    realms of politics, law, and business.” He backs this up with facts such as, “76% of US
    senators” were involved with Greek Life in college. He also uses other positions of power
    to show that there are a large percentage of highly successful people that were involved
    in Greek Life. Although his research does not state that being involved in Greek Life was
    the reason these people rose to such positions, it can be assumed that at some point it did
    help, whether it was getting their first job, or something farther on in their careers. This
    research compliments my own, by explaining the things that I might not be able to.
    To conduct research on such a matter as greek life, the best method is to interview
    the people involved in greek life. Many people use Sororities and Fraternities to make
    connections later in life. These lead to business opportunities, and possible friendships
    with people that were not even involved in your particular chapter. It is this incentive that
    makes being a part of a sorority or a fraternity an easy thing to manipulate. People can
    use a façade of their personality to get ahead in life, and to use the opportunities provided
    by the greek system to move past a person that is genuinely hardworking. I will ask
    members of Greek Life the following questions:
    1. Which Sorority/Fraternity do you participate in?
    2. Do you enjoy spending time with your sisters/brothers?
    3. Do you feel that you would have managed to find the people you most connect
    with without being a part of Greek Life? Why or Why Not?
    4. What made you choose to participate in Greek Life?
    5. How did you become close with other members of your sorority/fraternity?
    6. Do you intend to stay in contact with your sisters/brothers when you leave DU?
    7. As a participant in Greek Life, Which do you feel becomes the closest with the
    other members of their chapter? Sororities or Fraternities?
    By asking these specific questions, it should be rather easy to see whether or not the
    connections made through Greek Life are incentives, or if the people you meet there are
    the ones you will eventually be looking back on your college days with while at
    someone’s wedding. To people outside of the Greek System, it appears to be a little of
    both. Being of the “Independents” as my roommate calls me, she as it would be is
    affiliated, I am curious as to why people would join up. The research conducted for this
    paper will allow for an insight into if this is something that every college student should
    pursue simply because they are able to make connections that they would not have made
    previously.

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