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Greek leaders expressed widely differing responses to Saturday's Steering Committee tours through almost every Greek house, some pleased with the receptiveness of those on their tours, and others criticizing what they saw as a "rude" and rushed atmosphere.
Members of the Steering Committee split into four subgroups, each of which visited about five Greek houses in approximately an hour and a half on Saturday afternoon - and depending upon which subgroup visited their houses, Greek leaders got very different impressions of the Steering Committee members and their goals.
In an interview with The Dartmouth following the tours, Trustee and Steering Committee co-chair Peter Fahey '68 said, "The only surprise was that every single one that I went in was spit polish clean, since they're not always that way."
However, Trustee and Steering Committee co-chair Susan Dentzer '77 said, "The houses as far back as I can remember, certainly when I was here, were often where guys brought their mothers in and the first reaction of the mothers was not, 'what a totally gorgeous place for my son to live' - and I would say that was consistent with what we saw."
While Chi Heorot fraternity Summer President Jeff Davidson '01 said the subgroup of Dentzer, Engineering Professor Ulf osterberg and Hillary Miller '02 was "respectful" and "seemed to be genuinely interested in what was going on" in his house, Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority Summer President Laura Duncan '01 got the opposite impression from the subgroup of Tom Csatari '74, chemistry graduate student Jesse Fecker, Anthropology Professor Deborah Nichols and College Vice President and Treasurer Win Johnson.
"It was really shocking," said Duncan, the niece of new Dean of the College and Steering Committee member James Larimore.
