“I’m very hesitant to say I was in a fraternity because, to certain people, that will mean I was in a culture that promoted sexual assault, I partied my whole way through college, I had no responsibility, and I’m a privileged Caucasian kid who had everything handed to me. Murrow.Īnd yet “fraternity has become a bad word,” one brother told journalist Alexandra Robbins, who spent a year documenting Greek life for her excellent new book, Fraternity, out February 6. I was well aware that the Kappa Sigma roster included names like Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dole, Edwin Hubble, Robert Redford, Ted Turner, and Edward R.
Fraternal organizations like to boast that a who’s who of business and political leaders-including more than a dozen US presidents-were fraternity members. To its members, the Greek system offers a surrogate family and a lifelong support network. From 2005 to 2017, Robbins writes, at least 72 young men died in fraternity-related incidents.
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She’s referring to the fact that fraternities and sororities enable colleges to outsource a good portion of housing and social activities, and that Greeks, who tend to come from better-off families than the GDIs (“God-Damned Independents”), are more apt to pay full tuition, donate to their alma maters, and hold positions of power-all potential obstacles for administrators who aspire to abolish fraternities or rein them in. “There’s absolutely no reason why there should be fraternities, other than the financial incentive on the part of the universities.” “Fraternities are the worst,” Vanessa Grigoriadis, the author of Blurred Lines, a book about sex, power, and consent on campus, told me. As a Cal student in the mid-1980s, I pledged the Beta Xi chapter of Kappa Sigma. This all came amid the furor over Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose history of alleged sexual assault, heavy drinking, and membership in Yale’s notorious Delta Kappa Epsilon-which in 2010 led its pledges to the campus Women’s Center, where they chanted, “No means yes yes means anal!”-has fueled ongoing vitriol against Cal’s “Dekes” and its Greek system in general. “Fraternities are held to such a low level of accountability that misogyny grows and spreads, seemingly unfettered.” Soon the editorial board of the Daily Cal was weighing in: “Greek life is insular, archaic and toxic,” the student paper opined. “The privilege and sociopathic lack of empathy displayed in this image is profoundly upsetting.” “Men in our society have, especially recently, shown that they couldn’t give a shit about victims of sexual assault,” he wrote. Predictably, the Fijis gave the protesters some shit-several bros posed mockingly around the sign-bearers for a photo that eventually found its way to Walker Spence, a senior who had abandoned his fraternity because he was tired of making “excuses for my own complicity.” Spence posted the photo on Facebook. On the sidewalk out front stood a small group of protesters bearing signs, such as “Boycott Frats” and “Frat Brothers Are 300% More Likely To Commit Sexual Assault.” Cal’s football team was playing UCLA, and the front lawn and wide concrete staircases were crowded with students, parents, and alumni drinking and socializing. This house was bustling, though, on the previous Saturday. The heavy wooden doors are shut and there’s not a “Fiji” in sight. On a Wednesday in mid-October, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity near the University of California’s Berkeley campus looks all but deserted. In a statement, university officials said they take reports of sexual assault extremely seriously and have a response team in place.A membership ritual at an unnamed Cal fraternity, from Andrew Moisey’s The American Fraternity No parties or other social gatherings will be allowed at the fraternity house during the suspension. The chapter was placed on interim suspension and isn’t allowed to host or organize any activities, according to the alert.
“The university also has received reports of drugs being placed into drinks during a party at the same fraternity house, leading to possible drug-facilitated sexual assaults,” according to the alert. One student reported being drugged and sexually assaulted at the fraternity house, and one student reported being drugged while attending a party at an unknown location. 27, according to daily incident reports from the USC Department of Public Safety. On Wednesday night, six students reported they had been drugged at the fraternity house on Sept. In a crime alert issued Thursday, the USC Department of Public Safety said campus officials received “a report of sexual assault” at the Sigma Nu fraternity house at 660 W. USC officials have placed a fraternity chapter on interim suspension following allegations that women were drugged and sexually assaulted at the house.
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