Statistics prove that fraternity men and women have consistently ranked above independent students. Scholarship is stressed by all Greek-letter groups and national fraternal leaders reward achievement and take steps to remedy inadequacies. Local chapters provide study facilities and encouragement, study time for pledges, and rewards for high accomplishments. Fraternities increase chances of graduating. A recent three-year study of undergraduates who persist to graduation showed that on campuses without fraternities only 33 percent graduated.
Fraternities inspire high standards of conduct.
They are a proven way of reducing anonymity and impersonality that frustrate too many college students today. Each chapter is a small group where close friendships are formed, dreams and problems shared, and an identity established. No other college institution offers so much in a congenial atmosphere. Fraternities develop leadership ability. Fraternities instill a spirit of good citizenship.