 During the 1980s and 1990s , College administrators introduced new initiatives to hold the Greek organizations on campus more accountable for their actions and to offer more social alternatives to the predominantly single @-@ sex Greek system . In 1982 , the administration announced that Greek organizations would have to comply with a set of " minimum standards " , enforced through annual reviews , in order to remain in good standing with the college . These standards included not only health and safety regulations regarding the conditions of the Greek houses , but requirements for Greek @-@ sponsored activities deemed beneficial to the college community at large . The College introduced Undergraduate Societies to campus in 1993 , as a residential and social alternative to Greek organizations . Similar to the Greek houses in many respects , Undergraduate Societies were required to have open , coeducational membership policies . Panarchy voted to change its status to an undergraduate society and was joined the following year by a newly formed society , called Amarna . In the fall of 1993 , Student Assembly President Andrew Beebe , class of 1993 , argued in favor of the coeducation of the entire Greek system in his remarks at fall Convocation . During that same academic term , College President James O. Freedman predicted that the Greek system at Dartmouth would be coeducational within 10 years . 
