A push is building for elite colleges to scrap Greek life entirely, which would be bad news for fraternities and the schools that quietly protect them.

• Cornell is facing calls to shut down its fraternity system after another round of hazing stories.
• The charge is that colleges look the other way because the Greek system brings money and alumni loyalty.
• Rice is held up as the model: it dropped fraternities in the 1950s and assigns every student to a residential college instead.
• The pitch frames that setup as real inclusion, where no freshman is left out, versus what critics call fake DEI inclusion.

Outlook: Expect more pressure on big-name schools to replace fraternities with residential housing, though entrenched alumni interests make a fast change unlikely.