Why colleges don't do more to control their fraternities

Here's one view:
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Colleges-Don-t-Do-More/228841/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Let me share mine:

Universities are concerned about enrollment and retention.  Fraternities contribute to that goal.  At some institutions, residence halls live under one set of rules, Greek houses under another.  Drugs and alcohol are tightly policed in the residence halls.  The Greeks are ostensibly "self governing".  Students soon figure out where the good parties take place and where the alcohol flows.  Meanwhile, such institutions turn a blind eye, knowing that the parties and the alcohol attract and retain students.

Some colleges, like my alma mater, have tried to eliminate the Greeks.  When I attended Franklin & Marshall College in the sixties, F&M was all male and the 1200 students supported 11 frats, all but one located off campus.  We did pretty much what we wanted, free from supervision.

Later, after the college became co-ed, a well-intentioned president withdrew recognition of the frats.  What happened? They went underground, so that what little control the college had was completely lost.  And a lot of alumni, since half the student population in my day pledged fraternities, were alienated.  The college lost money.  And so today?  Yes, the fraternities are back at F&M.

And there you have my two reasons, based upon personal experience and observation, why fraternities persist and persist in misbehaving at many colleges and universities.