Campus Council members discussed the Campus Culture Initiative's recommendations to eliminate selective living group sections at the Council's general body meeting Thursday night.

According to the CCI report, the removal of selective living group sections will eliminate the current social stratification on campus.

Sophomore Pete Dickos, an at-large representative, said that there were few reasons to eliminate selective living groups on campus.

"The only con is it's space that independents couldn't have," Dickos said. "The pro is on campus social groups apart from the greek system. You get rid of the selective systems, and you're either greek or nothing."

Other members said they agreed and said that eliminating selective living groups sections will not make the predicted changes.

"Getting rid of selective living groups was suggested in this utopian view of Duke where everyone is equal and plays together and has barbecues in the middle of quads," said sophomore Kelly Jones, an at-large representative. "That just isn't possible."

President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said that one of the issues with the current housing system is the gender inequality that it creates.

"Both [selective living group and fraternity sections] create two issues," Ganatra said. "It gives selective living housing groups priority and males dominate most of the beds. It gives males a dominance over the social scene."

The Council also discussed CCI's recommendation to not allow continuous blocking-a system in which students would be able to arrange different blocks adjacent to one another.

Several members said monitoring continuous blocks would be impractical and implausible, and said allowing larger blocks would lessen the role of the selective living groups in the social scene.

"If me and 20 of my friends, guys and girls, could block together and have a common space for us to throw events and invite other friends, I would be really happy," Dickos said.

The Council plans to send a guest column to The Chronicle within the next few weeks expressing their opinions on the CCI's recommendations, said sophomore Kevin Thompson, Craven Quadrangle representative.

In other business:

Junior Ryan Todd, Few Quadrangle representative and president-elect, distributed a new room selection survey, which students will receive after the completion of Room Pix '07.