Fraternities and men associated with fraternities have been able to sidestep repercussion because of wealth, whiteness, and privilege.
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There are high-risk fraternities, and there are low-risk fraternities, and the difference between those two is rarely reported.
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Fraternities often have their members take place in charitable events, and many fraternities raise large amounts of money for charities.
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"It's basically saying to fraternities, 'Just make sure you commit rape at the fraternities and not on campus,' " Ms. Kimmel said.
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What did Douglas Fierberg, a lawyer who specializes in suing fraternities and universities, say about alumni donors who belonged to fraternities?
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Fraternities and sororities were banned at Amherst College in 2014, and Wesleyan University announced that same year that it would require fraternities to be coed.
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OU has never suspended all fraternities at once, but Ohio State University suspended all 37 of its on-campus fraternities in 2017 after multiple hazing allegations.
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"The fraternities take on the liability associated with student alcohol consumption, and in exchange, Yale allows the fraternities to use Yale resources (and recruit Yale students) and largely turns a blind eye to the sexual harassment and assault occurring in connection with the fraternities," the complaint says.
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The study's authors compared the rates of sexual assault among men who joined fraternities to the rates of sexual assault among men who did not join fraternities.
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Noah Berg from Wilmington, N.C., argues for the good that fraternities often do: One would be a fool to not take into account the good works done by fraternities.
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Altogether, there are almost 244,2500 men in fraternities and that's up 212 percent over the past decade," according to John Hechinger, author of "True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities.
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Ohio University suspended all 15 fraternities in the Interfraternity Council (IFC) on its campus after allegations of hazing at seven different fraternities were submitted within the first three days of October.
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No IFC fraternities will be allowed to participate in OU's Homecoming celebrations next week, nor can any fraternities hold meetings, host activities, or communicate as a group for the time being.
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Mr. Hechinger says fighting to make fraternities safer is probably a better use of critics' energy, as it is unlikely that fraternities will be banned on public campuses where they are powerful.
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It accuses the fraternities of violating the Fair Housing Act for offering housing only to men, and Yale and the fraternities of violating Connecticut's law against discrimination in places of public accommodation.
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Joan Gilbride, a lawyer for the fraternities named in the lawsuit, said the accusations are "baseless and unfounded," and that the fraternities and their national organizations would vigorously defend themselves against the claims.
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Every year, nearly 100,000 men are initiated into college fraternities.
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Simmons. Simmons didn't just organize fraternities; he'd joined fifteen of
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That's not to say some fraternities haven't taken the initiative.
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The whole history [of fraternities] is very fascinating, after all.
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Fraternities' vast alumni networks help catapult them into successful careers.
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Do you agree with these fraternities and national umbrella groups?
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For seven years, Andrew Moisey documented the debauchery of university fraternities.
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Rape is more likely in fraternities that practice greater gender segregation.
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You know, Juan, OK, there are other -- there are black fraternities.
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I mean, like, you were talking about black fraternities, black sororities.
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Officially, all Divine Nine fraternities and sororities are non-hazing organizations.
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I started to wonder how many American leaders were in fraternities.
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You mention that so many American leaders were members of fraternities.
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Kansas State recognizes 25 fraternities; all their houses are off campus.
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The rules also apply to sports teams, housing, fraternities, and sororities.
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All activities of the school's other campus fraternities were also halted.
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My college (Princeton) had eating clubs that were similar to fraternities.
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Why not provide detailed information about individual fraternities' disciplinary records instead?
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As a founding board member of Hazing Prevention—and someone who has worked with fraternities and sororities for more than 20 years—Bureau has a feel for why fraternities drag their feet when it comes to change.
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And the decree affects only fraternities that fall under the purview of the Interfraternity Council, leaving the four predominantly African-American fraternities that are part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council free to continue hosting social events.
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Most fraternities are banning hard alcohol in response to drinking-related deaths.
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His death prompted the university to suspend all fraternities and sororities indefinitely.
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After Piazza's death, Penn State banned all fraternities' social events involving alcohol.
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And fraternities are -- I mean, it&aposs -- it&aposs kind of strange.
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Police said Owens was a pledge member of one of the fraternities.
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Princeton University delays entry into fraternities and sororities until after freshman year.
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One Sweetheart explained that fraternities have had Sweethearts for over a century.
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Dozens of universities have introduced stricter rules on alcohol, especially at fraternities.
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Fraternities that demonstrate a pattern of bad behavior should absolutely be shuttered.
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Even with all their bad behavior, fraternities are more popular than ever.
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From the outset, fraternities have struggled with a kind of split personality.
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And most young men do not join college fraternities that debase women.
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Fraternities were "the main source of propagating hookup culture," Ms. Liu said.
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WIDDOES None of us were in fraternities when we went to college.
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Still, colleges often embrace fraternities and sororities for their philanthropy and leadership.
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A nineteen-year-old boy had died at one of the fraternities.
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Fraternity misbehavior has frustrated colleges as long as fraternities have been around.
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Many members of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party belong to the fraternities.
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Do we need any cause beyond all of that dying to do away with fraternities wherever possible and to diminish their prominence at schools where various circumstances, including the housing that fraternities provide, prevent them from being shuttered?
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The university, in a letter, called it a "proactive step" so fraternities can "ensure that the culture of their organization is aligned with the stated values" of the school's Greek community, university conduct code, and the fraternities' national organizations.
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The complaint suggests that there is a "symbiotic" relationship between Yale and its fraternities, which involves letting the fraternities manage social life on campus, in exchange for Yale officials looking the other way when parties get out of hand.
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Imagine now how much influence fraternities have over the values of our society.
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Despite scandals involving sexual misbehaviour and drunkenness, America's fraternities and sororities are flourishing.
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Stepping is a style of dance created by historically Black fraternities and sororities.
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Many of these fraternities of police also include prison guards in their membership.
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It surprised me that fraternities, in the beginning, weren't about women at all.
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The seven-day hearing raised questions about oversight at fraternities at Penn State.
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Sororities and fraternities would do big chants on the lawn after their meetings.
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In the gender-segregated world of college fraternities, sexist rhetoric isn't exactly astonishing.
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Instead, he thinks that the change will likely come from fraternities self-regulating.
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Others sported shirts with the symbols of historic African American fraternities and sororities.
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Eighteen of the Freedom Party's 21805 MPs belong to similar nationalist "Burschenchaften" fraternities.
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Eighteen of the Freedom Party's 51 MPs belong to similar nationalist "Burschenchaften" fraternities.
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For context, Tufts has 15 sororities and fraternities, while Penn State has 83.
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The NIC boasts that nearly half of all US Presidents belonged to fraternities.
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But stepping, popular in African-American fraternities and sororities, is the critical ingredient.
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And Mr. Fitzgerald said the administration was not planning to ban fraternities altogether.
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The healthiest part of good fraternities is the side the public doesn't see.
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Fraternities have been backed by misogynistic policies as long as they have existed.
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I don't think the film in any way is an indictment of fraternities.
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Unlike most other fraternities and sororities, which are firmly anchored to the college experience and revolve largely around social events, Black fraternities and sororities function as service organizations — with many members joining and remaining active well after their college tenure.
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As a result, every member of the IFC was suspended, the ACACIA and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternities were issued cease-and-desist letters, and the rest of the fraternities are waiting for the next five accused of hazing to be named.
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"Every year, and for decades, young men have died or suffered traumatic injuries pledging fraternities that are dangerous, yet promoted with false and misleading information by the partnerships between fraternities and universities," said Doug Fierberg, the Gruver family's lead counsel.
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Clampdown on University of Michigan Fraternities After Reports of Sexual Misconduct and Alcohol Abuse The suspension of parties and pledging activities at most of the school's fraternities was the latest effort at major universities to curtail the excesses of Greek life.
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It is a family and one of the most exclusive fraternities in the world.
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Perhaps we should also invite the (nationalist) student fraternities to sing something for us?
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American fraternities are the last institution in the modern world where Dionysus is found.
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Last week, Florida State University indefinitely suspended all fraternities and sororities following Coffey's death.
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Hitting fraternities and sororities — small, interwoven networks — with a regular cadence proved incredibly effective.
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Party members have also been embroiled in anti-Semitism scandals involving their student fraternities.
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The high-risk fraternities that demonstrate repeated patterns of horrible behavior should be eliminated.
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The next week, hazing allegations were submitted against seven different fraternities within three days.
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Fraternities are being unfairly maligned, and men are being demonized by sexual assault investigations.
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Harvard does not officially recognize fraternities or sororities, but several are open to students.
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More US undergraduates than ever, about 800,773, currently are members of fraternities and sororities.
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The fraternities, she said, canceled parties in response and promised to support assault survivors.
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Additionally, the binge drinking so prevalent at fraternities is the enemy of informed consent.
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Several fraternities in the North-American Interfraternity Conference have grappled with hazing-related deaths.
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Business fraternities are unique because they're more casual, coed, and have more professional aspects.
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I had two friends who were in fraternities, and it was this interesting thing.
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Against all wisdom, fraternities thrive; in the new book "True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities," John Hechinger estimates that at least 380,000 male undergraduates belong to Greek organizations, which he says represents a 50 percent increase over the last decade.
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Since their origins at the University in the mid 1800s, Penn fraternities have been problematic.
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My co-workers went nuts when we had fraternities from Amsterdam come by one week.
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Sororities and fraternities got together, they had parties in the 'burbs, everybody had a party.
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What's strange is that college fraternities end up filling that vacuum, using very similar rituals.
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Despite recent controversies including hazing, binge drinking and deaths, fraternities are more popular than ever.
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In addition, the university established a sexual violence prevention leadership board for fraternities and sororities.
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Under the suspension, IFC fraternities cannot hold meetings, host activities, or communicate as a group.
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Gruver's death has brought renewed focus to drinking and sometimes-fatal hazing at college fraternities.
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In 2014, Wesleyan University ruled that its small group of residential fraternities must integrate women.
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Together, those two groups represent more than 90 fraternities and sororities in the United States.
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Since Piazza's death, there have been other alcohol-related deaths at fraternities across the country.
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Most schools have not banned Greek life and most fraternities have yet to go dry.
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Toxic drinking culture, too, has become synonymous with Greek Life, with fraternities culpable in particular.
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Update: Two fraternities at Swarthmore College voted to disband after the release of internal documents.
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Debates about the future of fraternities and sororities have only gotten more intense since then.
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That's going to be interesting to see how magistrates and juries look at fraternities now.
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Supporters of Greek life said the incidents that have made the news do not define fraternities.
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Fraternities whose agenda was more social than academic are, of course, another hallmark of American universities.
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The film explores the dark side of fraternities and the cruel practice of hazing new pledges.
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But Penn State also said it is hamstrung by the fact that fraternities are off-campus.
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At Bowdoin College, students who join fraternities or similar selective membership social organizations face permanent dismissal.
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They met with fraternities, sororities, and other student groups to show them how the app worked.
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Men who told me they loved their own fraternity added that fraternities in general were harmful.
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Fraternities and sororities are social clubs at many U.S. colleges and often have their own housing.
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In the past, the Turkish military was vigilant about possible infiltration by members of Islamic fraternities.
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Sororities and fraternities organize huge amounts of philanthropic events and generate buzz around important social issues.
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We say that we'll press fraternities to be responsible, and they in turn promise to obey.
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It makes sense that fraternities didn't want to provide insurance that, in effect, subsidized bad behavior.
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It was also not immediately clear how many complaints were made against each of the fraternities.
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Which of these visions of fraternities -- and all-male institutions more broadly -- is the real one?
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It is absolutely correct that horrific abuses have taken place in fraternities, literally throughout their history.
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While not all fraternities, and certainly not all fraternity men, abuse this social power, some do.
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Both Reeves and Hood have faced questions about the use of blackface at their college fraternities.
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"There are reasons why young men die year in and year out at fraternities," Fierberg said.
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And student groups from clubs to fraternities can pre-load and replenish accounts for their members.
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In December, Harvard was sued by fraternities, sororities and students saying the new policy is discriminatory.
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There's some evidence that students in fraternities maintain higher-than-average grades, and the Gallup-Purdue Index, a far-reaching survey of American college graduates, found that those who belonged to fraternities and sororities reported more career and life satisfaction later on than those who didn't.
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Protesters share articles and joke about fraternities on a private Facebook group with more than 200 members.
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Fraternities raise more than $20 million each year and volunteer countless hours in their communities, he said.
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Take note, fraternities of America, commitment to the shtick is the key to a classy toga party.
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Ten fraternities affiliated with the council were already facing elevated scrutiny from the university before the suspensions.
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Now Austria's 2150-odd nationalist fraternities, and their influence on the country's politics, are under mounting scrutiny.
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Now Austria's 150-odd nationalist fraternities, and their influence on the country's politics, are under mounting scrutiny.
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The article addressed the greater systemic issues in Greek Life, and called to abolish fraternities at Tufts.
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During the 2015-2016 academic year, about 384,733 undergraduates belonged to fraternities nationwide, according to the NIC.
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Little data is available about the current racial makeup of American fraternities, but Princeton is an exception.
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A year later, fraternities at Penn State say that kind of behavior can't and won't happen again.
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Americans demonize fraternities as bastions of toxic masculinity where young men go to indulge their worst impulses.
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However, it goes without saying that some practices of certain fraternities are in desperate need of reform.
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Fraternities are a good way to connect, but they can be hostile environments if not led correctly.
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Explain. — What role should colleges and universities play in policing the behavior that occurs at some fraternities?
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Member fraternities with their more than 9113,000 chapters must put a compliant policy in place by Sept.
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Do you believe that colleges need to finally become responsible for what happens in fraternities and sororities?
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While fraternities often speak publicly about their charitable work, Mr. Flynn heard little about that during rush.
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Fraternities and sororities must make a number of changes to ensure their survival, starting with going coed.
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A number of the graduates were strolling, or performing choreographed dances popular among black fraternities and sororities.
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Even worse, many colleges continue to enable fraternities despite the huge number of incidents of sexual violence.
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Could it be that something is wrong with the history and very existence of all-male fraternities?
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For the past three years, women and "non-binary" students from Engender have tried to join fraternities.
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"These fraternities have drink, danger and debauchery in their blood — right alongside secrecy and self-protection," Lisa Wade, an Occidental College sociology professor and the author of "American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus," wrote in a Time magazine essay that called for an end to fraternities.
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On Wednesday, she said the administration respects the fraternities' decision to disband and their condemnation of the documents.
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Fraternities are technically charitable organizations—charitable organizations that bring in millions of dollars each year from member dues.
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Following his death, President Denise M. Trauth suspended the activities of all fraternities and sororities at Texas State.
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What's more, only five out of 27 of Penn's fraternities completed mandated education programs centered around such issues.
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Since then, the university has placed on probation or suspended 13 fraternities associated with alcohol misconduct and hazing.
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As Business Insider notes, if you attended a university with fraternities, the email's bro language might look familiar.
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The seven-day preliminary hearing that preceded Sinclair's decision raised questions about oversight at fraternities at Penn State.
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Yet the Columbia Spectator report on the march makes no mention of any specific fraternities being singled out.
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A recent spate of deaths at American colleges has brought a focus back on dangerous behavior at fraternities.
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Following student votes on divestment on several campuses, swastikas have been painted on the doors of Jewish fraternities.
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The first fraternities were all white, and none of them admitted African-Americans until the mid-20th century.
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It would stop colleges from punishing fraternities and sororities for refusing to admit members of the opposite sex.
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In turn, some fraternities reportedly require attendees (single or taken) to show their dating profiles for party entry.
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Few universities — or media accounts — distinguish between what academics refer to as high-risk and low-risk fraternities.
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He and all my uncles and aunts belonged to unions, the National Guard, Greek fraternities, secret societies, churches.
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The conference represents over 80 percent of fraternities nationwide, said Judson Horras, the group's president and chief executive.
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Judge Kavanaugh entered Yale in 1983 and joined Delta Kappa Epsilon during a period of revival for fraternities.
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The fraternities will not be able to petition the Office of Student Life to be reinstated until 2023.
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In Tennessee, state representative John DeBerry Jr. floated a bill that would ban fraternities altogether in the state.
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Students trying to join fraternities, sororities, clubs or athletic teams have been tied up, blindfolded and sexually abused.
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The hoodie was a reference to the Divine Nine, the five African American fraternities and four sororities. Rep.
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Wanting to share the appreciation of wine with more women than were in the prestigious wine fraternities Mrs.
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For that same reason, the artist is not certain that abolishing campus fraternities would quash this country's masculinity issues.
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Either way, the North American Inter-Fraternity Council (NIC) appears to be worried that fraternities have a bad rap.
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And with negligible exception, these incidents involved drinking to excess—another activity which fraternities claim to regulate or forbid.
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The incident comes in the wake of heightened scrutiny of alcohol-fueled hazing rituals at fraternities across the country.
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Institutionalized racism in police departments, or in college fraternities, is real and had been tolerated for way too long.
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In addition to student misconduct proceedings, it withdrew recognition of the fraternities involved -- which in essence shuts them down.
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Rather, it was that they should go to their own colleges, because we don't want them around the fraternities.
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The fraternities cannot hold activities, participate in university activities or recruit new members pending external review, the university said.
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A group of fraternities and sororities is suing Harvard University over a campus policy discouraging private, single-sex organizations.
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A number of headlines have emerged pointing to fraternities and local chapters being suspended for hazing and alcohol abuse.
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He visited African-American fraternities and Asian Christian groups, and began putting on the shows they wanted to see.
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He promised that, with reform, the fraternities and sororities that met "stringent expectations" would be allowed back onto campus.
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The episode comes amid continuing criticism of fraternities, where some say binge drinking, sexual assault and hazing run rampant.
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Requiring fraternities and sororities to reflect the diversity of the campus — at a minimum — would change the Greek ecosystem.
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City police officers respond to complaints about fraternities in coordination with the campus police, sometimes with patrols on bicycles.
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He said that the investigations into the 11 fraternities could reflect an increasing awareness about hazing at the school.
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Research has found that ads for arrest records are more likely to show up on searches for black fraternities.
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"It's kind of a play on the fraternities that hang bedsheets during rush week," Wolff told CNN affiliate WKRC.
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Social media has become an additional problem for fraternities, already under fire for deadly hazing and underage drinking practices.
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The moves are an attempt to prove to college officials that fraternities are indeed adult enough to govern themselves.
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And it said it would permanently revoke recognition of fraternities for violations, as it did with Mr. Piazza's fraternity.
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Fraternities are a formidable force in college life, well financed, politically connected and a big source of alumni donations.
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In his book "True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities," John Hechinger describes how embedded fraternities are in the American establishment: About 40 percent of United States presidents belonged to one, including the two Bushes at Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale and Gerald Ford at D.K.E. at the University of Michigan.
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Since March 2015, at least three fraternities have been kicked off the LSU campus, according to an investigation by KATC.
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There, you can soak up the importance of everything from The Oprah Winfrey Show to historically Black sororities and fraternities.
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The action means the fraternities cannot participate in Greek life events, such as homecoming or the university&aposs dance marathon.
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One student said that fraternities even get cash bonuses based on the amount of new users they sign up. Hooray!
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"I keep hearing from President Barron, 'I can't do anything to these fraternities -- they're on private property,'" Jim Piazza said.
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Founded by former SS officers, the party has close links with Austria's Burschenschaften, secretive fraternities that embrace pan-Germanist ideology.
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So, it's fair to say that the people in fraternities—the type of people who joined them, I mean—changed?
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The Greek Village, for example, was designed with sororities and fraternities in mind, and offers everything from WiFi to elevators.
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With fraternities caught up in allegations of sexual misconduct across the country, the movement to abolish them has gained momentum.
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Like other fraternities, Delta Kappa Trump has its own status symbols, code words and initiation ceremonies and pledges of allegiance.
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Some of those fraternities espouse ideas that echo Nazi ideology, such as the idea of a larger Germany including Austria.
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Investigations on all Greek Life organizations began, and a few weeks later, recruitment was suspended for all fraternities and sororities.
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What's more, involvement in fraternities or sororities was shown to be strongly correlated with the likelihood of experiencing sexual assault.
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And why not put more energy into nurturing other groups and living arrangements that might siphon students away from fraternities?
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Fraternities celebrate their values of friendship, honor and leadership; alumni must force young members to live up to those principles.
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He expected the black fraternities would be under a microscope now, since any party they throw will draw more students.
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Yet, from the moment freshmen set foot on a college campus, this mission confronts a powerful barrier: fraternities and sororities.
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Many of our readers wrote in with their thoughts on Alexandra Robbins' defense of fraternities from charges of toxic masculinity.
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Instead, they are squeezing fraternities with regulations or trying to establish more direct control, as Penn State now is doing.
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Aware that their image has been tarnished, fraternities have often been partners with universities in trying to change party culture.
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"Yale often claims that the university cannot punish the fraternities because they are unregistered, off-campus organizations," the lawsuit says.
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The stereotypical image of student life—partying, drinking, fraternities, and sororities—is the polar opposite of the conservative Turkish value system.
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Both Nichols late father and mother Margaret, who died in 2013, belonged to fraternities and sororities in the 1930s, he said.
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The school suspended all of its fraternities and sororities through the spring quarter when a student wore blackface to a party.
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On Tuesday, both Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon fraternities announced that they have disbanded and relinquished their houses on the campus.
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Women-only "fraternities" were founded, beginning the late 19th century, with many noble principles in mind, like philanthropy, leadership and scholarship.
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The movie's plot is fueled by a real issue: that sororities, unlike fraternities, are unable to host parties on college campuses.
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U.S. universities have increasingly become intolerant of rowdier fraternities, linking them to problems including binge drinking and sexual assault on campus.
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And, then, fraternities started to boast about their prowess with women, because they were trying to assert that they weren't gay.
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Since then—that was about the mid-20th century—women have obviously been a major focus of fraternities, in many cases.
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The federal case is lead by two international sororities, two international fraternities, a Cambridge fraternity chapter and three current Harvard students.
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He said he does not believe fraternities should be removed, but should instead allow women and non-binary people to join.
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It's not that students are routinely subject to sexual assault and harassment by fellow students online or at bars or fraternities.
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I would look down from my dormitory room window onto a campus dominated by fraternities with their obscure, occasionally cruel, rituals.
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Meanwhile Strache, while denouncing racism and anti-Semitism, has stopped short of any blanket condemnation of the fraternities as a movement.
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It was a better place without fraternities dividing and distracting the student body from the higher priorities of a college education.
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My unabashed femininity was what paved the way for gay men in, say, fraternities to come out without jeopardizing their masculinity.
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Fraternities are a way for young people coming into a scary new world to connect with each other and feel safe.
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The other side of the story is so frequently overlooked: that most fraternities provide a positive, lifelong experience for their members.
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"Simply put, fraternities elevate men to social gatekeepers and relegate women and non-binary students to sexual objects," the lawsuit said.
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Neel (New World Order) is most effective when Goat depicts the humiliating practices many fraternities use to initiate their new members.
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GE: Did either of you have friends who were in fraternities who were willing to shed any light on their experiences?
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Parties and pledging activities at most of the University of Michigan's fraternities were suspended last week after reports of sexual misconduct and alcohol abuse, and Florida State University suspended all activities at fraternities and sororities after the death of a pledge, possibly because of alcohol abuse, and the arrest of a fraternity member on drug charges.
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Some [of our rivals that] operate on the East Coast tried to fuel that early growth by hitting fraternities, sororities, football games.
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After the sit-in began on Saturday, Swarthmore's president, Valerie Smith, suspended the fraternities' activities pending the outcome of an external investigation.
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Specifically, the resolution requires all member fraternities—which covers more than 6,000 chapters around the country—to implement a policy by Sept.
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He was competing in the Ace Miller Boxing Tournament, which is an annual tournament where the school's fraternities box against each other.
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Dating apps and fraternities are both working to scrub their reputations as unsafe places for women filled with rogue penises and disrespect.
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Several of the Burschenschaften, secretive pan-Germanist fraternities with roots in late-19th-century duelling culture, have close links to the party.
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In Austria, right-wing student fraternities sometimes espouse ideas with echoes of Nazism, like the concept of an expanded Germany including Austria.
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Is it a handful of serial predators, or a generous sprinkling diffused throughout the fraternities, growing there like fungus on a wall?
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Two of the seven fraternities were identified as ACACIA and Alpha Epsilon Pi, both of which were issued cease-and-desist letters.
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The voluntary disbanding of the two fraternities reflects a "broader change in student needs and desires," Smith said in her Friday statement.
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In recent years, disputes within the movement have occasionally surfaced publicly, reflecting political tensions between more moderate fraternities and their extremist peers.
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About 77% of Princeton sorority members and 73% of fraternities were white, while the entire student body was only about 48.8% white.
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Fraternities centered on black and Latino students, and gay and transgender communities, also provide support structures that universities might not otherwise offer.
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Mr. Horras said that for about a year, members and officials had been examining how to make college campuses and fraternities safer.
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A FRAT BRO is an "Alpha male, perhaps?" not because of their supposed manliness, but because fraternities use a Greek lettering system.
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Still, Kendall Smith, the president of one of those four fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi, said the controversy was bad for them, too.
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The resulting public pressure on segregated fraternities and sororities could help achieve the vision of inclusion enshrined in law and the Constitution.
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"In some cases, like in the fraternities and sororities we are doing studies with, they will have actual written rules," she said.
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" "DKE had a hard-drinking reputation," recalled John Hechinger, a 1988 Yale graduate and author of a book about fraternities, "True Gentlemen.
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The scandal has led to increased scrutiny of the student fraternities, known as Burschenschaften, which have their roots in the 19th century.
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About 40 percent of FPO lawmakers, several FPO ministers and numerous FPO ministry staff are members of right-wing fraternities, the IKG says.
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In both cases, they say, the university would not investigate because the fraternity houses were off campus, even though they were sanctioned fraternities.
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In Twain's time, the Hirschgasse was the battleground for Heidelberg University's fencing fraternities, whose members were identifiable by their caps and facial scars.
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Five young men have died in incidents that appear to be connected to fraternities at colleges across the country so far this fall.
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"We are seeing commitment and collaboration from fraternities to address problems at unprecedented levels," NIC spokeswoman Heather Kirk said in an e-mail.
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Contrary to negative headlines and popular opinion, many fraternities are encouraging brothers to defy stereotypical hypermasculine standards and to simply be good people.
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When I spoke with Wade, she told me that they might not be champions of fraternities if they weren't already stuck with them.
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He recalled Kavanaugh being kind and outgoing to the younger pledges despite the divides that sometimes exist between lower and upperclassmen in fraternities.
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No Kegs, No Liquor: College Crackdown Targets Drinking and Sexual Assault Dozens of universities have introduced stricter rules on alcohol, especially at fraternities.
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Few have followed the lead of elite liberal arts colleges like Williams and Bowdoin, where students can be expelled for participating in fraternities.
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A trail of Solo cups and crushed Natty Light beer cans leads to "The Row," a strip of fraternities, themed houses, and co-ops.
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I think most people know athletics in high school to be similar to fraternities in college, and I've seen many an academic blackout drinking.
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And while those members might be interested in the networking opportunities that fraternities flaunt, it's the social life that really draws in eager freshmen.
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Fraternities are large, powerful organizations that have an all-consuming influence on the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people in this country.
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No wonder the uniform looks like the same sort of pretend-professionalism that fraternities demand of their pledges, while hazing them behind closed doors.
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And other campus-related groups, like fraternities and other clubs that are located off-campus, would no longer be included in the proposed guidelines.
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In addition to final clubs, it has been expanded to include single-sex fraternities and sororities and all-male and all-female singing groups.
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"Defenders say the cliques are harmless fraternities, likening them to close-knit groups in the military," the LA Times noted in a July article.
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Black Greek letter organizations were formed in the early 1900s during a time where white fraternities and sororities refused to admit people of color.
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Two lawsuits against Penn State allege that university officials failed to respond appropriately to persistent problems with hazing and alcohol use at its fraternities.
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His character was rejected by other fraternities at the fictional Faber College but got into the hard-partying, rule-breaking frat nicknamed Animal House.
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Alexandra Robbins: Yes, I do think it has a bias, and there are misconceptions that the general public and the media have against fraternities.
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So fraternities in the 80s became this locus—this embodiment of the college experience that pop culture was telling kids that it should be.
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Throughout the 20th century, if you were darker than a brown paper bag, you could not access certain social clubs, sororities, fraternities, or churches.
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"He also said that he had ordered the suspension of "all social activities of fraternities on this campus for the remainder of the semester.
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Sports and Fraternities Have A ProblemIn February, the president of a fraternity at Cornell University in New York was arrested on charges of rape.
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For the uninformed, an ice breaker is what we called a dance party thrown by black fraternities during the first few weeks of class.
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"People at Swarthmore have been trying to get rid of fraternities since the 1980s, and even before then," said Daria Mateescu, a rising senior.
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Mr. Lovell said that the suspension of activities would give fraternities time to come up strategies to align themselves with the code of conduct.
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Some of that prejudice naturally stems from highly publicized incidents of hazing, assault or alcohol abuse associated with some all-male groups, including fraternities.
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To him, our faith in the ennobling power of political debate is no more well grounded than the supposition that college fraternities build character.
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The women belong to a student group called Engender that has used civil rights-type tactics to try to force fraternities to accept women.
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For seven years, Andrew Moisey, a professor of art history at Cornell University, had photographed the testosterone-fueled culture surrounding fraternities in the United States.
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Something I really love about it are the scenes featuring step routines by Black sororities and fraternities, which you don't see much in experimental film.
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There is a telling relevant example from the U.S. college context: Sororities, unlike fraternities, are bound by a ban on alcoholby the National Panhellenic Conference.
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His new show at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery entitled Gangs, Tribes & Fraternities, is comprised of a variety of works on canvas, paper, wood, and metal.
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"So basically just dress frat as fuck" is hardly a state secret, though it is revealing to learn that fraternities are as misogynistic as ever.
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A St. Moritz representative told CNN it had been surveilling Penn State fraternities for years and that security officers sent regular reports to the IFC.
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" Regarding sexual assault on college campuses during recruitment parties for sororities and fraternities, she has said "alcohol doesn't get you drunk, you get yourself drunk.
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Right now, just over 40 schools require it with a subset of students, including athletic teams, fraternities and sororities, and freshmen, according to One Love.
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Its supporters ranged from hard-core Islamists to members of more traditional religious fraternities, Islamist modernisers, socially conservative businessmen and even secular reformists and Kurds.
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There had never really been any other photobooks about fraternities, and the only things we really had about them were newspaper reports and Hollywood comedies.
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There's something awful about a culture that can provide shelter and protection for people like Brett Kavanaugh—and there's no doubt that's what fraternities do.
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They are, if not the hub, the apex of social life at Harvard — upscale surrogates for those classic centers of college merriment, sororities and fraternities.
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He even co-wrote a piece defending the Columbia system of both single-sex and coeducational fraternities as one affording the most options to people.
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It shows a pattern of alcohol becoming a problem at fraternities in the 1960s and 1970s, when states started raising the drinking age to 21.
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About 40 percent of FPO members of parliament, several FPO ministers and numerous FPO ministry staff are members of right-wing fraternities, according to IKG.
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White and black athletes were recruited differently: "Coaches and the fraternities entertain the white boys, throw parties for them with dates," Clark's meeting notes say.
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Some of Judge Kavanaugh's supporters have dismissed some of the allegations as harmless "boys will be boys" behavior prevalent in fraternities and all-boys schools.
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Colleges can also do more to hold fraternities accountable, starting with collecting and making public any information about alcohol-related hospitalizations associated with local chapters.
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Ohio State has suspended fraternities Alpha Epsilon Pi and the Sigma Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu for violating the university's Code of Student Conduct.
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Fraternities and their national umbrella groups dispute studies, which Dr. Barron cited, showing that fraternity members are disproportionately connected to binge drinking and sexual assault.
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At their best, fraternities help teach members how to share their thoughts and feelings and encourage them to rely on and communicate with other guys.
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Also, the departing president of the university's Interfraternity Council, Zach Lowry, said the university referred sexual assault complaints involving fraternities to his organization without investigation.
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A class-action lawsuit against Yale and its fraternities claims the university has fostered an environment where the fraternity houses dictate the campus social scene.
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Randomly flipped through the 1979 UNC-Chapel Hill yearbook today just to kill some time, and found this photo on one of the fraternities' pages.
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A blunt allegory for the seething libidinal violence that has become synonymous with fraternities, the student paints a murder of crows circling above his sexualized subject.
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In a Wednesday, July 12, 2017 recommendation, a Harvard University faculty committee proposed in a a ban on all student fraternities, sororities and single-gender clubs.
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Protesters arrived Saturday with a list of demands, including the dissolution of the Swarthmore chapters of Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon, the school's remaining two fraternities.
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She enlisted churches, Rotary Clubs and even sororities and fraternities to help her cause, asking them to volunteer to teach classes based on their skill sets.
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She announced that from 2017, members of single-sex clubs, fraternities and sororities will not be allowed to lead official campus groups or captain sports teams.
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The new move against the temple comes days after the king's appointment of a new supreme patriarch from the most austere of two Thai Buddhist fraternities.
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The administration will also partner with city governments and groups like college fraternities as it tries to add 1 million people to ObamaCare's rolls next year.
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The fall rush period has ended, and students who received invitations, or bids, to join fraternities are now in a pledging process to become a member.
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To the Editor: Frank Bruni's column advocating the abolition of fraternities because of a few bad actors is like banning telephones to prevent obscene phone calls.
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Lisa Wade, an associate professor of sociology at Occidental College and author of American Hookup, says fraternities have always been about excluding and privileging certain identities.
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In a 2017 essay for Time, she writes that the only way to fix America's problem with Greek life is to get rid of fraternities completely.
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Undergraduate membership in the North-American Interfraternity Conference, which represents most of the oldest and largest fraternities, has soared by 50 percent over the last decade.
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Fraternities have a choice: They can do nothing about their original sins, or they can honor the nobler side of their traditions and work toward reform.
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Fraternities and sororities are the most segregated places on campus, partly because Cornell emboldens students to recruit members without systems to prevent segregation and social bias.
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It represents an ugly strain of male-to-male interaction that may be as common in American fraternities and English pubs as on Australian cricket fields.
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But there is also a wider conversation about why fraternities and sororities continue to exist at all and what role they have at a modern university.
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Of the 18 Asian-American fraternities and sororities recognized by the National Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Panhellenic Association, 16 were founded between 1990 and 2000.
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It also said it had made substantive reforms since Mr. Piazza's death, including taking over the primary role of monitoring and disciplining fraternities from the council.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Halfway through his book of photography documenting the debauched state of American fraternities, Andrew Moisey presents an unsettling pair of images.
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The root cause of these issues is the Machine, an underground coalition of 28 fraternities and sororities that has controlled politics on campus for over 100 years.
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NIC's new policy follows a series of alcohol-related deaths in fraternities, and renewed national interest in the dangerous, and sometimes deadly, drinking behavior within Greek life.
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"At their core, fraternities are about brotherhood, personal development and providing a community of support," Judson Horras, CEO and president of the NIC, said in a statement.
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U.S. college fraternities been under fire for years as disturbing stories of alcohol-fueled partying, sexual assault and "hazing" of potential new members have come to light.
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Universities have responded to recent hazing accidents by suspending recruiting by fraternities and sororities, cancelling social events and banning hard liquor and kegs of beer at parties.
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Three anonymous Harvard students, sororities Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma, along with fraternities Sigma Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon sued the school in federal court.
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During Florida State's suspension of fraternities and sororities, chapters will not be allowed to hold organized events, aside from meetings with the university or their national chapter.
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More than a dozen cases of mumps have been reported at Indiana University this year, and the majority have been linked to one of the school's fraternities.
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But groups known as "final clubs," informal social clubs a student joins before graduating, as well as some fraternities and sororities have continued to operate off campus.
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And the conversation has been expanded to include all single-gender clubs unaffiliated with the university, including five all-women final clubs, four sororities and five fraternities.
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Everyone was involved in fraternities and sororities—yeah, they were in the news recently for being racist and having chants that have the word 'nigger' in them.
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Several FPO ministers had said they would not attend the ball, which included many members of far-right fraternities to which several senior party figures also belong.
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"Fraternities have nothing to do with the FPÖ," said the party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who is also Austria's vice-chancellor, the day after the songbook surfaced.
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The link to the fraternities, seen as a movement of anachronistic extremists and anti-Semites, undermine the party's attempts to brand itself as a mainstream political vehicle.
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Like their American counterparts, Austria's fraternities spend a lot of time drinking, and forging lifelong bonds with their frat brothers that will help them throughout their careers.
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The fraternities have their origins in the early 19th century, when they sprang up as patriotic student associations in German-speaking university towns in post-Napoleonic Europe.
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When the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s, the fraternities were suppressed but their members were quick to join the ranks of the Third Reich.
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Get the Keg Out of the Frat House This Op-Ed writers believes that as fraternities are growing in popularity they are in desperate need of reform.
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One researcher found that fraternities were embracing "a more inclusive form of masculinity," based on equality for gay men, respect for women, racial parity and emotional intimacy.
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As the misleading term "toxic masculinity" dominates the news, colleges are sounding a clarion call to abolish all-male groups, fraternities often the most notorious among them.
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His junta made religious education mandatory, opened new religious schools and continued to populate the state bureaucracy with members of religious fraternities, who were reliable anti-socialists.
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It would ascribe a level of unscrupulousness that I wouldn't want to be on the hook for to say that fraternities actively encourage flouting of their alcohol regulations.
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I'm willing to give fraternities the benefit of the doubt that these policies are actually about protecting the safety and well-being of the students who join them.
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I spoke to Doug Fierberg, a lawyer who has made a practice of representing victims of "school violence"—which means he spends a lot of time suing fraternities.
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Dorms would be unsafe without security guards or RAs, too, he reasons, and that lack of oversight is at once what makes fraternities so appealing and so dangerous.
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Fraternities simultaneously make victims and perpetrators of the young men who pay them for that opportunity, and even in the latter case the system should be held accountable.
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The NIC is optimistic about the affect the rule will have on the culture of fraternities, even if technically chapters have the autonomy to set their own policies.
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The severity of charges in Deng and Piazza's death may encourage prosecutors elsewhere to pursue similar convictions for fraternities following a recent spate of alcohol-related hazing deaths.
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Because other countries don't have this stigma against men who have close, emotional friendships with other men, they don't really need fraternities as much as America seems to.
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About 40 percent of FPO members of parliament, several FPO ministers and numerous FPO ministry staff are members of such fraternities, according to Austria's main Jewish body IKG.
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Fraternities and sororities offer an easy way to make friends in an unfamiliar environment, said Hank Nuwer, a professor at Franklin College who has researched hazing for decades.
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In the past week, two more IFC fraternities, three sororities, a business fraternity (Pi Chi Theta), and the Ohio University Marching Band have all been accused of hazing.
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In Tasmania, the idea gradually turned into a bit of a joke: the island's very own Bigfoot, with its own zany, rivalrous fraternities of seekers and true believers.
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Nuwer told Insider that the trend of alcohol becoming an issue at fraternities happened in the 1960s and '70s, when states raised the legal drinking age to 21.
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These examples suggest an aggressive campaign on the part of some fraternities and some men on campus to insist that consent is not only irrelevant, but also undesirable.
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And some officials of other universities fear the impact could become quite broad, restricting their ability to combat the perennial problem of hazing and binge drinking at fraternities.
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Granted, extensive research has shown that all-male college groups like fraternities and sports teams tend to adopt more hypermasculine attitudes than the rest of the student population.
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Tinder and Bumble are using college students as a marketing strategy by hosting sponsored parties, recruiting college ambassadors and partnering with fraternities and sororities, the Houston Chronicle reports.
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Pennsylvania State University has placed one of its fraternities on an interim suspension after a teenager was found dead at an off-campus house allegedly occupied by members.
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A 2008 study from the University of Maine found that 73% of students in fraternities and sororities experienced what they called some form of hazing at least once.
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Recent allegations of sexual harassment in academia by professors at Dartmouth, Berklee College of Music and Princeton, as well as by fraternities highlight the pervasiveness of the problem.
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If we are to make space for all-male Greek organizations in our #MeToo culture, we need to put institutional pressure on fraternities to combat their hypermasculinized culture.
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While there are any number of heinous things that have happened at fraternities in recent years, there are also many good things that happen that are rarely mentioned.
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The FPO is setting up a committee of historians to look into its past after two of its members' right-wing fraternities were involved in an anti-Semitism scandal.
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A cynical person might start to wonder why fraternities bother with all these rules at all if they don't intend to enforce them—at least not with any regularity.
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They also say the rule is rooted in sexism against men, whose fraternities and private clubs have been the subject of criticism by university officials over alleged sexist behavior.
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Of the nine sororities and fraternities in the National Pan-Hellenic Council (also known as the Divine Nine) there are well over a million members; many of them Black.
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The federal lawsuit was brought by the fraternities Sigma Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the sororities Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma, as well as three students.
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"At their core, fraternities are about brotherhood, personal development and providing a community of support," CEO and president of NIC Judson Horras said in a statement, according to BuzzFeed.
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In August, the North American Interfraternity Conference, which represents 66 fraternities with more than 6,100 chapters across 800 campuses, declared a ban on hard alcohol beginning in September 2019.
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So far this school year, five young men have been found dead at fraternities, or after attending fraternity events, at schools across the country from New York to California.
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The students said they were celebrating their achievements by "strolling" — a cultural tradition among black fraternities and sororities — when the usher in question pulled them to move them along.
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So much of what we see of Indian culture in the United States is appropriated extremes, from college fraternities hosting "Holi" parties, to Beyoncé in a low-cut sari.
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The policy came directly from the wishlist of the fraternities, says Weidinger, many of whom lionize those behind the abortive bombing campaign for South Tyrol's secession in the 1960s.
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In the early 22017th century, universities began to realize that the fraternities were dominating campus social life and had housing that was far better than that of most students.
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When lawsuits proliferated and insurance premiums soared in the 1980s and 1990s, fraternities risked losing coverage for their considerable wealth, which includes more than $3 billion in real estate.
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On a range of fronts, fraternities — and sororities — contradict our stated values and undercut our supposed goals for higher education, putting our inconsistencies and hypocrisies under a magnifying glass.
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The lineup includes Jakari Sherman's "Tribute," a celebration of stepping's origins in African-American fraternities and sororities, and his "Chicago," which plays with expanding the boundaries of the form.
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Some of the fraternities, which have a penchant for fencing duels and torchlight processions, hold far-right ideals, including the desire for a greater Germany encompassing Germany and Austria.
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I saw the connection between werewolves and fraternities first as arbitrary, but somehow fitting—that is, until I started writing about this series and suddenly remembered Big Wolf On Campus.
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The Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Chi fraternities, the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta sororities, and three anonymous Harvard students filed a lawsuit against Harvard in federal court.
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As Shelby points out early in the film, the National Panhellenic Conference, which governs sororities, prohibits them from drinking alcohol in their own houses, so only fraternities can throw parties.
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A St. Moritz representative has previously told CNN it had been providing surveillance of Penn State fraternities for years and that security officers sent regular reports to the Interfraternity Council.
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It remained a cultural document for a while—I never wanted it to be about that particular fraternity, because the important thing to me was the culture of all fraternities.
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Fraternities, the good ones, offer young men the chance to learn how to be vulnerable, to confide emotionally in other men, and to have intimate, platonic relationships with other guys.
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The new rules will apply not only to the six male final clubs, but also to other single-sex organizations, including five women's final clubs and nine sororities and fraternities.
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David Tracey, who represents NcNeil, Singer and Walker in court, said that currently, men, through fraternities dominate the social scene at Yale, and that his clients deserve equal social agency.
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Under her rules, schools may not be responsible for responding to incidents of assault or harassment that take place online or at bars, fraternities, off-campus apartments or away games.
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Instead, he kept himself busy with a daily comic strip called Static Cling, which didn't pull punches and made fun of all — football players, feminists, protesters, fraternities and the administration.
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Men in fraternities are, in fact, more likely than other male students to be perpetrators; SHIFT found that they were more likely than other men to be victims as well.
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"The Freedom Party is clearly the party of the fraternities," said Bernhard Weidinger, a researcher at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance who is a leading expert on the Burschenschaften.
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A hard drive containing information on organizations including right-wing groups such as fraternities that are often close to the FPO was copied and seized in the raids, they added.
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The lawsuit, which seeks $25 million, says the school violated Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, because it handled hazing claims in fraternities and sororities differently.
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Fraternities have rarely been prosecuted after the hazing death of a student, and experts described the sentencing as one of the most stringent punishments handed down in such a case.
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" And whereas Muirfield, home of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, has a longstanding reputation as one of the game's most exclusive fraternities, Gullane might be considered the "people's club.
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After a series of alleged hazing activities at several fraternities this fall, the university began publicizing information about groups that may have violated the student code of conduct, she said.
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He then went on to become president of his fraternity chapter at Duke, as well as president of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, an organization of black fraternities and sororities.
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"It's hard to look at this policy with respect to fraternities and be very optimistic," Douglas Fierberg, a Washington, DC–based attorney with experience in college hazing cases, told USA Today.
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"These troubling allegations, which will be thoroughly investigated, indicate a potentially escalating systemic culture within our IFC organizations," Dean of Students Jenny Hall-Jones said in a letter to the fraternities.
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Ancient Greeks and modern Greeks — fraternities, I mean — have special festivals where they worship the side of being human that is drunkenness, theater, performance, disregard for all social codes, especially respectability.
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Most fraternities in the US will no longer allow hard alcohol unless it is served by a licensed, third-party vendor under new rules announced Tuesday by a national governing association.
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It's all part of an alleged hazing incident at OU, according to newly released documents stemming from a University-wide investigation into several clubs, fraternities, sororities and even the marching band!!!
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The allegations against the fraternities are pretty bad too ... one complaint said a fraternity made blindfolded pledges sit in a basement while listening to the same song on repeat for hours.
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Several fraternities and sororities sued Harvard University on Monday over its restrictions on students joining off-campus single-sex social groups, saying the rule aimed at combating sexism is itself sexist.
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"Banning sororities and fraternities is by no means adequate as a sole response to the deeply entrenched problem of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault on college campuses," she said.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State says it&aposs no longer recognizing two fraternities that have "several violations of university rules" and made alcohol available during social events that included underage students.
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But police said in a statement that investigations showed that the incident instead was prompted by a disagreement between two students who belonged to different fraternities that escalated into an altercation.
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Even so, with fraternities at a number of universities under fire as the focus of sexual misconduct complaints, the decision by Harvard could spur other colleges to restrict single-sex clubs.
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Syracuse University's fraternities had their social activities canceled for the rest of the semester after a black student said members of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity called her the N-word.
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The percussive dance style known as stepping — a thundering blend of stomps, claps and shouts — began at African-American fraternities and sororities, though its roots date from the early 20th century.
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I found many fraternities offering a comforting family away from home, a safe space for guys who worried that it would be hard to be themselves or find friends in college.
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Between January 2010 and June 20113, there were publicly available online reports of approximately 2,130 incidents of university-recognized, national, predominantly white fraternities committing major violations of conduct or ethical codes.
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Xander Kruvczuk of United States of America wants closer monitoring: I have found the case to be that fraternities have been getting more and more out of hand in recent years.
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There are no figures kept by the government or higher education groups of hazing incidents, student deaths, excessive drinking or fraternity discipline; individual schools and fraternities generally resist sharing internal data.
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As colleges responded with denials, a movement began on campuses to demand the creation of more Asian-American-studies programs and Asian-American clubs, student organizations, social clubs and, eventually, fraternities.
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Defenders say that fraternities promote a sense of community and belonging amid the stress of campus life, and they are a lure for many high school students choosing where to apply.
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Despite counting a substantial fraction of male students as members and serving the same social role on campus that fraternities and sororities do elsewhere, the final clubs are totally unaffiliated with Harvard.
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The protesters also sought the end of the building leases to fraternities and demanded the fraternity houses go to historically marginalized groups, such as students of color, disabled students, and LGBTQ students.
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For example, the cultures and collective rituals of male bonding among closely knit male fraternities and male athletes on college campuses foster tolerance toward or even perpetration of sexual assault against women.
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The suspension will apply to all 37 of the school's chapters in the Interfraternity Council, an umbrella organization of social fraternities which does not include professional or multicultural Greek organizations or sororities.
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He forwarded a January message sent to students by the school's dean about a university investigation that found evidence of sexual misconduct at one of the nine fraternities targeted in the lawsuit.
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Protesters stormed a frat house at Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College over the weekend, demanding that the school dissolve its two fraternities over leaked documents that allegedly revealed homophobic, sexist, racist and violent comments.
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In the tight-knit Jain and Patel gem trading fraternities, where many struggle to get bank credit, most business is done informally, with cash lent and goods advanced without collateral or paperwork.
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Exceptions were written in for public college sporting events, student housing such as dorms, fraternities and sororities, and space that may be shared or used by preschool and high school-age students.
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The policy was motivated by sexism, with Harvard incorrectly seeking to link all-male organizations and fraternities to sexual assaults and contending that single-sex organizations subordinate women, according to the lawsuits.
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"Harvard should get out of the business of trying to dictate who students spend their time with off campus," Stanton Jones, a lawyer for the sororities and fraternities, said in a statement.
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Other fraternity incidents -- The University of Michigan is investigating fraternities there after learning the school's Interfraternity Council suspended all chapters at the Ann Arbor school last week, according to CNN affiliate WDIV.
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It's just a few months into the 21800-198 school year and five young men have already died in incidents that appear to be connected to fraternities at colleges across the country.
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"Universities that promote fraternities but refuse to tell parents and students about the risks they face will be held responsible for their misrepresentations and misconduct," said the Braham family's attorney, Douglas Fierberg.
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Mr. Thrasher said Greek life activities would resume after members of fraternities and sororities worked with the university's Division of Student Affairs to develop new measures and new expectations for student behavior.
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Episode-by-episode, we've zeroed-in on simmering displays of struggle—crazy folk in woods, crazy dudes in mansions, crazy white dudes in fraternities—Earn and fam were passengers to that struggle.
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Swarthmore Fraternities Disband After Uproar Over 'Rape Attic' Documents The move comes after the release of more than 100 pages of internal documents in which members of Phi Psi discussed sexual misconduct.
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But during years spent reporting for a book on fraternities, I learned that eliminating all of them could deprive good people of important social resources that many schools otherwise do not provide.
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A committee of faculty and staff members and students has suggested that numerous exclusive social clubs — including the secretive "final clubs," fraternities and sororities — be "phased out" over the next five years.
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But as students continue to die or get injured, anti-hazing advocates say more drastic action is vital and argue that criminal prosecutions, especially against the fraternities, could have a meaningful influence.
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So in college we had fraternities as a means of stereotyping each other, and it's helpful just to do shorthand, like the Delta Sigs were losers but they have the best pot. Right.
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Harvard created a rule in spring 2016 that punishes students if they are members of fraternities, sororities, and final clubs — a type of social group unique to Harvard — unless the organizations go coed.
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They attend prestigious HBCUs or Ivy League schools, become members of historically Black fraternities and sororities, and involve their kids in Jack and Jill, an invite-only social organization for mothers with children.
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The North American Interfraternity Conference, which counts most of the largest fraternities in the country as its members, said in a statement to Insider that it's trying to reduce "alcohol misuse" and hazing.
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Many of Austria's fraternities remain committed to the outmoded and unpopular ideology of pan-German nationalism, with their members clinging to the trappings and prejudices of a European high culture of centuries past.
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Members swear a vow of secrecy, so the activities, traditions and beliefs of the fraternities are difficult to monitor, other than on rare occasions when their inner dealings erupt into the public sphere.
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Bumble and Tinder are sponsoring parties for Greek houses in the University of Texas system, the Houston Chronicle reports, having fraternities sign exclusive contracts to signify themselves as a Bumble or Tinder house.
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They are asking the college to immediately end leases with the school's fraternities and allocate their buildings to groups that have been historically marginalized, like students with disabilities, black students and transgender students.
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"This is a huge challenge because we don't own the houses, we don't own the property, we aren't the national" organization governing fraternities, Penn State's president, Eric Barron, said Monday in an interview.
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In December, a coalition of fraternities, sororities, and students sued Harvard because of its policy of penalizing unrecognized single-gender group members by denying them campus leadership roles and endorsements for major scholarships.
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At night in their room, Deng and Chen lay in their beds and debated whether to rush one of two big Asian-American fraternities at Baruch, Pi Delta Psi and Lambda Phi Epsilon.
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At A.N.U., officials have been grappling for more than a year with sexist incidents, especially in its residential colleges, most of which are independently governed living quarters, similar to American fraternities and sororities.
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Chancellor Kent Syverud announced Sunday that all social activities of fraternities at Syracuse University were suspended for the rest of the fall semester following the latest in a string of incidents involving racism.
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One of the more dispiriting aspects, Mr. Nuwer said, was that two of the deaths, at Penn State and at Louisiana State, involved fraternities that had promised to take strong steps against hazing.
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A Frat Boy and a Gentleman One researcher found that fraternities were embracing "a more inclusive form of masculinity," based on equality for gay men, respect for women, racial parity and emotional intimacy.
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Thai Buddhism itself is divided into two fraternities: the Mahanikaya of the masses and the more conservative Thammayut, bound to the establishment and more influential since its founding by a 19th century king.
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On Tuesday, they were successful: Both fraternities announced they were disbanding, leading to resounding cheers from dozens of students who slept, ate, studied, and worked to end fraternity culture at Phi Psi's "dank" house.
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After a second incident — in which white members of Sigma Nu wore bandanas, saggy pants, and fake mustaches while drinking Coronas — the school suspended all of its fraternities and sororities through the spring quarter.
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Matthew Ellis Texas State University suspended all activities at fraternities and sororities on Tuesday, following the death of a 103-year-old sophomore at an off-campus event hosted by members of a fraternity.
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But recent scandals involving fraternities and violence on campus have forced universities to reexamine their relationships to these organizations, and in retrospect, the hijinks depicted in "Animal House" don't come off as so innocent.
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The youngest was a 17-year-old high schooler who was visiting Pennsylvania State University in October when he went into cardiac arrest at the off-campus apartment of one of the school's fraternities.
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Dylan Hernandez, 18383 — San Diego State University: The school suspended 14 fraternities following the death of Hernandez, a student who was pledging the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, according to the Times of San Diego.
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Florida State University indefinitely suspended all activities at its fraternities and sororities on Monday, imposing sweeping rules after the death of a pledge and the unrelated arrest of a fraternity member on drug charges.
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Maybe Alabama prosecutors will head to the white fraternities in Tuscaloosa and begin to arrest young men for conspiring to recklessly endanger the lives of the partygoers they hope to have unprotected sex with.
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Henry Flynn, a 19-year-old sophomore, said he rushed a few fraternities last winter before deciding against pledging after his roommate was taken to the hospital with alcohol poisoning after a Greek event.
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"Judges are taking it more seriously," said Nuwer, adding that lawyers who didn't know how to bring a case against fraternities in the past now have greater understanding of how to handle such cases.
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Despite policies, hazing continues in universities Greek life organizations — which include sororities and fraternities — are meant to be campus organizations focused on building friendships and future connections, with many members participating in volunteer work.
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In an interview with "PBS NewsHour," Burns talked about the film's emphasis on women: [W]omen are central to this story in a way they aren't in jazz or other forms, which are fraternities.
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Situate those stats next to a few others: men who join fraternities are three times more likely to rape, and women who join sororities are 74% more likely to experience rape than other college women.
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About 100 leaders from a variety of African-American organizations, ranging from the NAACP to fraternities and sororities, were in attendance for the meeting, which lasted more than two hours and was closed to press.
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Why is it that despite the indisputable evidence that equal access for women in the tech sector enhances the value of companies, lots of tech firms in the U.S. still have the feel of fraternities?
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The incident comes in the wake of a ban on all Penn State fraternities' social events involving alcohol following the death of a 19-year-old sophomore in an alcohol-fueled hazing ritual in February.
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For those parties, they had two different sets; a "cross over crate" they thought contained music white partygoers could enjoy, and the hardcore hip hop set they saved for the black fraternities, Coker told CNN.
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Since most fraternities select people with similar backgrounds and interests—ethnicity, race, religion, class, or often sports (and occasionally academics)—joining one is an effective way to avoid the diversity and difference a university offers.
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Fraternities provided booze, at their houses, giving them control over the event — and setting up a minefield of potentially horrible outcomes, ranging from date rape to long walks of shame in the light of dawn.
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"As in the Sandusky matter, it is a national moment for every university to take stock of what's going on in this culture of debauchery that occurs in the fraternities in American universities," he said.
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These companies are entering into exclusive contractual sponsorships with fraternities, giving the frats swag and cash to require their party-goers to download and sign up for the app at the door to get in.
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Since the vote to penalize single-gender clubs, a number of fraternities and other male-dominated social clubs decided to become open to everyone, but all-female groups were more reluctant to embrace the change.
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No IFC fraternities will take part in OU's Homecoming celebrations next week, but sororities will still participate as planned, as well as other groups that identify as fraternies but are not part of the IFC.
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Of the 37 fraternities that are part of the Interfraternity Council, 11 have been under investigation since the start of the school year for possible violations of the student code of conduct, Ohio State said.
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A newspaper article at the time said that 21-year-old Hubert Spake died after an initiation for a secret society called Theta Nu Epsilon (members of the latter could be brothers in other fraternities).
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Nearly every aspect of college life (including all-white fraternities) was held up to scrutiny as these young Americans tried to understand a country that seemed to be better at promising justice than delivering it.
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"Judges are taking it more seriously," Nuwer said Sunday, adding that lawyers who didn't know how to bring a case against fraternities in the past now have greater understanding of how to handle such cases.
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The moratorium remains in place, but as a reward for good behavior, 26 of the 36 fraternities and sororities at Iowa are being permitted to host one holiday party around the end of the year.
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Legal experts said the situation with fraternities is analogous to workplace cases, such as in mines or on construction sites, where prosecutors believe an employer's negligence or wrongdoing contributed to a worker's injury or death.
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Last week, the president of Cal Poly indefinitely suspended all fraternities and sororities following student outrage over racially insensitive pictures that surfaced on social media, including a fraternity member posing in what appears to be blackface.
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Then, as homosexuality became a label in American society, fraternities, like other all-male groups, became under suspicion—because here was a group of guys who lived together, ate together, and slept in the same house.
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The specific idea of giving sex dolls to guys in fraternities came about last year when I read about how many schools were being investigated for mishandling sexual assault and what a big issue it is.
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The party appealed to a long-running, old-fashioned nationalist streak in Austrian culture: The nationalist Burschenschaften, or fraternities, promote an idealized memory of a purified Teutonic past, heavy with anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi sentiment.
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San Diego State University has suspended 14 fraternities amid allegations that "possible misconduct" at one of them may have been linked to the death of a 19-year-old student over the weekend, the authorities said.
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There are numerous allegations of sexism against fraternities, and studies show men who join are far more likely to commit assault after joining even when controlling for factors like prior history of assault and alcohol use.
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Two cease-and-desist letters were issued to the ACACIA and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternities, that described the behavior detailed in the complaints as such that would put the "health and safety" of students at risk.
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"It makes more sense to work with them and have the opportunity to speak to fraternities and sororities and schools ... and stop hazing in its tracks by the people who are perpetrating it," Evelyn Piazza said.
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"I want to send a message that we've got a serious problem and we need to deal with it, and (fraternities and sororities) are part of the solution," FSU President John Thrasher said of the suspension.
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But the question of how to handle fraternities has dogged administrators for years: Critics say fraternity houses encourage drunken partying and sexual misconduct, while supporters say many of them build camaraderie and foster future professional relationships.
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" In a statement released by officials, the president of the interfraternity conference at Purdue University said its member fraternities had eliminated hard alcohol several years ago and had since "seen a positive shift in our culture.
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At Tinder, Ms. Wolfe said, she took the app to S.M.U., got sorority women to sign up, then immediately crossed the street to the fraternities and told them all the hot girls were on the app.
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Syracuse University suspended all social activities at fraternities for the rest of the semester on Sunday, after a string of racist and anti-Semitic incidents that have roiled campus, prompting student protests, boycotts and sit-ins.
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A former freshman at the College of Charleston in South Carolina has filed a civil lawsuit naming the school and one of its fraternities, alleging she was drugged and raped at an off-campus party last August.
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Both greeks and non-greeks seem to be in agreement that the film is a bit of an exaggeration, but the topic at hand — underground hazing in Black fraternities — is something that we need to talk about.
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It might not be the typical way to celebrate the American national holiday dedicated to the leader of the civil rights movement, but for some sororities and fraternities in the Pacific Northwest, it's a long-running tradition.
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I think they would be willing to engage with one of my suggestions for fraternities, which is that instead of the pledge process, have members go through a healthy masculinity program, run by an outside third party.
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A University of Maine study from 2008, the most recent year for which such research is available, found that 73% of students in fraternities and sororities experienced what they called some form of hazing at least once.
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In the past two weeks, several hazing allegations have been brought against social groups at Ohio University, resulting in the college suspending all of its 15 social fraternities, three sororities, a professional fraternity, and the marching band.
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The most recent ball, held at Vienna's famed Hofburg Palace, drew a larger than usual protest, as an estimated 10,000 demonstrators turned out in a show of opposition to the growing influence of the far-right fraternities.
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In sororities, problematic hazing sometimes involves heavy drinking "but in no way, shape or form does it match what happens in male fraternities," said Hank Nuwer, who's been tracking reports of hazing at US colleges for decades.
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My transfer criteria included that my new school have no fraternities, because even if I chose not to be in one, their presence would define the social structure of the school in a divisive and exclusionary way.
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" The University at Buffalo this weekend suspended all official activities of its more than 35 social fraternities and sororities after a freshman was taken to the hospital in what the school has called a "suspected hazing incident.
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A 2014 study of F.B.I. hate-crime statistics from 349 colleges found that campuses with large populations of historically white fraternities are more likely to report verbal and physical assaults involving bias against blacks and other minorities.
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Harvard announced the de facto ban after the university's Task Force on Sexual Assault Prevention denounced campus finals clubs for having "deeply misogynistic attitudes," connected them to sexual assault issues and lumped fraternities in with the clubs.
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Recognizing that fraternities have a problem, the North-American Interfraternity Conference has proposed a voluntary pilot program that would bar alcohol in the common areas of fraternity houses, except during registered parties served by a licensed vendor.
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"This may actually send a message to the fraternities that they need to do more," said David W. Bianchi, a lawyer in Miami who, for two decades, has represented parents in lawsuits after their children were killed.
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Neither Delta Upsilon or Delta Tau Delta currently have trans students in their ranks, but both Oregon fraternities are reaching out to the LGBT groups at the school's Eugene campus, and both have changed their formal recruitment policies.
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The near-unanimous decision by representatives from the 9113 fraternities in the group will require each organization, including their 6,100 chapters on 800 campuses across the U.S. and Canada, to start following the new rule by September 2019.
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That takes us through to around the latter half the 20th century: Membership actually began dwindling in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights movement, and many fraternities (not all of them) were not willing to diversify their membership.
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As the historian Diana Turk has chronicled in her book, "Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920," the first known Greek letter sorority — or "women's fraternity," as it was known — was formed in 1870.
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Udo Landbauer, re-elected to the regional assembly, initially rejected President Alexander Van der Bellen's call for him to step down, and his party, many of whose officials are also members of right-wing fraternities, stood by him.
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It's no surprise these institutions remain popular: According to my rough estimate, about 13 percent of male students enrolled full-time in four-year colleges — including those without official Greek systems — are members of social or cultural fraternities.
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"Realistically, the answer is regulation and reform," John Hechinger, the author of "True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities," said during a panel on Greek life last week at The New York Times Higher Ed Leaders Forum.
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"There's that saying 'life finds a way' and I think it makes sense here because if fraternities were to be removed from American colleges, teenagers would continue to find a way to group together based on similarities," he said.
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Two University of Oregon fraternities announced new measures earlier this week to include and actively recruit trans men for the first time, adding their chapters to a growing list of Greek organizations that are attempting to become more inclusive.
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In addition to the hard alcohol ban, the NIC has also introduced Good Samaritan policies that encourage students to call 911 regardless of whether they're surrounding by illegal activity and advocated for stronger legal action to keep fraternities safe.
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So, as a way to counter that, and prove their masculinity, at a time in which heterosexuality was becoming a characteristic of masculinity itself, many fraternities changed their recruitment practices to recruit men who were good at seducing women.
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The vast majority of fraternities in the U.S. will not be allowed to serve their own hard alcohol, instead having to rely on licensed, third-party vendors, as per new rules announced by the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC).
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The concern, shared by many Austrians, is that the fraternities' deep roots in the party run the risk of mainstreaming the radical right into national life, giving extremists a powerful soapbox to address their politics to a broader audience.
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The anti-semitic roots survived in most fraternities after the war, and today's modern iterations exist on a spectrum from conservative right-wing to right-wing extremist, with some, but not all, subscribing to racist or anti-Semitic views.
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Persuasive research — along with common sense — tells us that members of all-male fraternities are more likely to have a warped view of permissible sexual contact and that women who frequent fraternity parties are more likely to be assaulted.
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Ohio State University has canceled all its fraternities' social and recruiting activities to investigate allegations of hazing and alcohol abuse, becoming the latest institution in the United States to crack down on Greek campus life after reports of misconduct.
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Meanwhile, much of our built environment contains negative or "exclusive social infrastructure," including gated communities in the United States and South Africa, and college fraternities, which Klinenberg condemns categorically based on their association with substance abuse and sexual assault.
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Robbins argues that 21st-century, post-#MeToo efforts toward gender equality too often conflate fraternities with the toxic masculinity that she says many of them actively work to disrupt by giving young men an outlet for friendship and vulnerability.
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But it argues that this position is disingenuous, because the fraternities "act as extensions of Yale," providing party space, while Yale permits them to use the Yale name, Yale email addresses, Yale bulletin boards and campus facilities for recruitment.
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Anger over the songbook drew up to 10,000 protesters to gather outside a formal ball in Vienna Friday night that has become known as a major event on the social calendar for the Freedom Party and associated nationalist fraternities.
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In Alan DeSantis's 2007 book, Inside Greek U: Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, he cites data from the Center for the Study of College Fraternity claiming that 85% of US Supreme Court justices since 1910 belong to frats.
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For seven decades at the University of Vermont, students participated in an annual "Kake Walk" where fraternities—in a contest that mimicked dances performed by enslaved people before the Civil War—wore blackface and Afro wigs as they danced for prizes.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The crew of a hard-hitting film about initiation rituals at U.S. college fraternities said they hoped the movie would break the code of silence that has kept such violent hazing practices veiled in secrecy for too long.
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"The larger problem at Penn State has been an institutional and culture void, and a culture of excessiveness and permissiveness to which Penn State and any number of fraternities have turned a blind eye," said Piazza family attorney Tom Kline.
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His two sons flitted into scenes like seedlings of future Large Adult Sons; if you blurred your eyes, you could see them wearing Patagonias and playing pong in the living rooms of their Ivy League fraternities on a Tuesday night.
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Read: Frat Bros Are Basically Immune to Alcohol Interventions, Says Study Despite fraternities' consistent attempts to convince the world that they're not total shitshows, science recently confirmed that the alcohol habits within these institutions are as bad as they seem.
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If you take a look at our culture, one so microfocused on productivity, and it's totally soulless in its architecture and its spiritual outlook—even our religion is basically just, like, a surveillance machine—I totally understand why men join fraternities.
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So, guys are flocking to these fraternities, perhaps for different reasons, maybe just to make the college community a little smaller, but once they're in it, they value the experience so much, because they are allowed to be human beings.
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Or it could be that the students from the middle and upper classes, who tend to go on to make a lot of money as adults regardless of their college experience, are more likely to join fraternities in the first place.
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Fraternities that were not named at OSU were given steps to come off suspension, in a similar manner to what is expected to happen at OU.The Sorority & Fraternity Life Office at OU didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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The company specialty — the stepping developed by 20th-century black fraternities and sororities — is forcefully, if anachronistically, stirred together with various 19th-century African-American sibling forms, like the gamelike juba and the Ring Shout, which smuggled the drum into church.
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In a 2015 Sociology Compass article, Kaitlin Boyle, a professor at Virginia Tech, noted that on measures of sexual aggression, hostility toward women, and drinking frequency and intensity, members of low-risk fraternities did not differ significantly from non-Greek students.
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In August, the North-American Interfraternity Conference, which represents more than 80 percent of national and international fraternities, adopted a rule banning hard alcohol from fraternity houses and events unless it is served by licensed third-party vendors, effective next September.
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"We need to get the message out to schools, sororities, fraternities and college preparatory academies with bunk beds to stop these injuries," said lead author Dr. Randall Loder, an orthopedic surgeon at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
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During college, Kavanaugh was a junior varsity basketball player, a member of a secret senior society Truth and Courage and a member of one of Yale's fraternities -- Delta Kappa Epsilon -- known on campus for its occasional antics and drinking culture.
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On Sunday, the university suspended all social activities at fraternities for the rest of the semester, after a group of students, including members of one fraternity, accosted a female African-American student on Saturday night and used a racial slur.
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They have also asked for a court order that would force the fraternities to admit women and allow them to share in the benefits of membership, like housing and powerful alumni networks that can lead to jobs, internships and social capital.
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