Each individual student is going to associate with his or her friends and the people with whom he/she feels comfortable and shares common ground. Students will do it in the eating clubs, they will do it informally in their rooms and at parties, and they will freely choose their associations throughout their lives after they have graduated. Princeton’s approach to ­fraternities and sororities (President’s Page, Oct. 26) calls to mind King Canute trying to forbid the tide to come in. If the University doesn’t want to sanction so-called Greek organizations, that’s its prerogative. But to think that this administrative policy is going to prevent undergraduate social “stratification” and build bridges among students is simply unrealistic.

Gaetano P. Cipriano ’78