I read it less like she was correlating those conversations to a frat as much as she was making an (albeit poorly described) observation about who was in the la

I read it less like she was correlating those conversations to a frat as much as she was making an (albeit poorly described) observation about who was in the lab. I'm not sure if she was trying to be humorous, but it would be silly to assume a sorority or female-heavy research facility would be doing anything different.