Thus, any breach of the new minimum standards would result in one less house to serve students. Critics charge that the Committee is wary of allowing its new residential life scheme to compete freely with the Greek system, for fear that the latter would still prove more popular with students. The report describes how much easier it will be for houses to fail Minimum Standards. Houses would become liable for the activity of their members. The most dangerous proposals, though, are the ones that ensure that it will be economically unviable for Greek houses to continue operation.
Greek organizations obtain the majority of their funding through rent.
This is where the houses are most vulnerable, given the extent to which the College regulates living arrangements. The Committee recommends that only seniors and up to four juniors, who must be house officers, be allowed to live in each house. The College would also require that each house be completely filled each term, meaning that every rush class must be within four members of the capacity of the house. If they were unable to fill to capacity, organizations would be in danger of losing their houses. Greek houses would have to meet this requirement by the winter of 2002, although exceptions might be made for coeducational houses.