UNC-CH's Thorp on the Greek community

Writing on his blog, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp espouses the virtues of fraternity and sorority life at Carolina.

Though he wasn't in a fraternity while a student at Carolina, Thorp writes that he owes much to the Greek system. His father was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and that's where he met Thorp's mother.

The Greek system has taken some knocks lately, particularly related to the strange death of DKE President Courtland Smith, who was shot dead earlier this year by Archdale police after driving and acting erratically on the interstate. Police thought he had a gun.

Here's what Thorp writes about Smith:

We may never fully understand why Courtland died. We do know that there’s no indication that Courtland had been using anything other than alcohol the night he died. That was consistent with what our Student Affairs folks told us about Courtland – that he was a good kid who was working with them to improve Greek life and make his fraternity a safer place.