Baseless Rhetoric Attacking Greeks Does Not Help

To the Editor: Although unaffiliated, I'd like to take issue with Josh Green's comments at the recent meeting with student representatives of the trustee committee: "no matter how few or many houses stay on campus, 'pong in the basements' is going to be the most popular social option" (The Dartmouth, 10/13/99). This statement is clearly yet another example of using emotion and poor reasoning to advocate the elimination of the Greek system. Let's do the math: there are about 20 basements around campus eligible for 'pong.' Assuming one can cram two tables into a basement, and that there are four people playing at a table, and that every basement and pong table is chock full at a given moment, that means that there are 160 people, or five percent of students, able to play pong at one time.