I don ' t think that would ever stop them . <| sep |> Well I won ' t say that what you said was a lie , but it is a very common negitive stigma that many people who don ' t know American University too well will see . In reality you ' re thinking of the party kind of frats , the ones with the hazing type initiation also hazing is VERY illegal . In reality there are many different kinds of frats . You have your studying kind , your club kind , and even your standard roomate kind , but yes you have your party kind . Also I think the whole greek system comes from the fact that greek letters are annoying in math and somehow we stockholmed ourselves into making them into names . P . S . The party kinds aren ' t even the hardest partiers , try chilling with the ones who have been bashing their heads against Calc 3 and Physics 212 for a semester .