Dartmouth College announced plans to make fraternities and sororities coeducational as a means to decrease "problem drinking" on campus and to encourage "respectful relations between men and women." Critics of such restrictive policies at colleges nationwide may invoke a 1997 Second Circuit ruling that when New York's Hamilton College abolished fraternities, it broke antitrust law by stifling competition among alternative student housing providers.

And at Virginia Tech, an "Act Like Bill Clinton" dance ended badly when four fraternity brothers were arrested for holding an exotic dancer against her will, and a fifth was charged with indecent exposure.

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