<p>First of all, you purport to be a mature individual while simultaneously arguing that most of those involved in greek life are “more materialistic and less intelligent”. Sorry, but that’s just patently false (consider how high Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, UCLA, and Duke’s greek participation rates are). </p>
<p>Secondly, SCU has a pretty tame social scene especially when compared with some more renown California schools. </p>
<p>Finally, the cold hard reality is that students, especially freshmen, overdo it at almost all residential, co-ed, non religious schools. I’ve been to a party at Berkeley where someone had to call an ambulance because a girl got alcohol poisoning. I’ve also seen cops at Emory try to wake up girls that were passed out drunk on the sidewalk and guys that had vomit all over their shirts. Really the main difference between a more selective school’s drinking scene (other than maybe engineering schools like Cal Tech) is that students tend to reserve the partying for Fridays and Saturdays. Maybe Thursdays depending on their course load but certainly not M-Sun.</p>