#Fraternities

[eretzyisrael]

BY ANI WILCENSKI

At Cornell, the school uses an anonymous reporting system in which anyone can submit a complaint against a frat, even people who don’t attend the university—which can then become near-immediate grounds for a formal investigation during which the fraternity may very likely be suspended. This happened as recently as February, when Cornell’s Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS) received “an anonymous incident report” making unspecified allegations against at least 10 fraternities. By 9 p.m. the same day, OSCCS emailed every new member of those fraternities encouraging them to come forward with their own reports; three days later the school began suspending the accused chapters. The frats were prohibited from all social activity during the investigation, which included banning new members from eating at the house, even though they were paying for the fraternity meal plan, and limiting events at campus apartments occupied by graduating seniors, some of whom even had to cancel their birthday parties. I talked to one senior who wrote to the university, explaining that their guidelines were making it impossible to hold even small gatherings among friends and asking for additional clarity so seniors could find approved ways to enjoy their final days as students—especially since the anti-Israel protests were making campus life notably unenjoyable.

“It was frustrating because most people in our frat are Jewish, and the frat really was essential for us while there were swastikas being drawn on school sidewalks and people were yelling ‘From the river to the sea’ every day,” he said. ��I said in my email to the school that campus is divided, isolating, and even threatening for Jews sometimes, so having the fraternity social network is actually a critical part of our lives. They didn’t even respond to my message.” The school lifted his frat’s suspension nearly a month later after the university found insufficient evidence for the allegations.

This incident—and the myriad other times the school leaped to penalize even unsubstantiated infractions—is still fresh in the minds of Cornell fraternity brothers as they watch the university’s noisy Gaza encampment enter its second week, despite multiple statements from the school pointing out its many rule violations. “It’s pretty clear the school views a certain type of rule break as honorable and just, and other rule breaks as violations by entitled jerks, so this was not surprising to me,” the senior said.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the most prominent historically Black fraternities in the country, has taken a first step toward barring transgender members. Delegates to the fraternity’s constitutional convention, held Wednesday through Sunday in Chicago, voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of a bylaw amendment limiting membership to “naturally born” males, sources told GLAAD. A spokesman for Alpha Phi Alpha, reached by The Advocate, had no comment. The amendment is still subject to approval by local chapters and the general membership before the change is final. It states that membership will be restricted to “any male defined as a human being naturally born male, who remains and continually identifies as a male,” according to a draft reviewed by GLAAD.

Leading up to the delegates’ vote, several people who spoke to GLAAD said an organization that has long been supportive of civil rights should not be endorsing discrimination. “Their decision to alienate trans and nonbinary people from membership is reactionary, asinine, and unbecoming of an organization with a professed commitment to human rights,” said Deandre Miles-Hercules, a “gender creative” Alpha who uses they/them pronouns, told GLAAD. “It’s ludicrous to be the fraternity of Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. and come up with a policy that bans trans people.”

Historically Black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha are moving to bar trans members from joining, limiting membership to males assigned at birth.

[vaingloriousworkshop]

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[brunelsblog]

If you are an international student, please stay the fuck away from fraternities and sororoties. There was a sorority in the university that I went to where they would make new recruits sit on top of the dryer and turn it on. Any part that jiggled would be marked and they would have to lose it by the end of the month. Don't even get me started on the frats that would cage the new first year members and pee on them.

[ebonyseuphoriatarot]

[fratnowrpg]

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[high-quality-tiktoks]

I love SDSU though

[kontextmaschine]

Honestly wonder how normalization of male bisexuality is changing fraternity culture

[princetonarchives]

Menu Monday: As we've noted elsewhere, Princeton University does not have fraternities in favor of eating clubs, but Greek letter societies cropped up here and there in Princeton's history. Here, a seemingly short-lived chapter of Phi Kappa Epislon had a dinner on February 10, 1871.

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 22

The entire Menu Monday series

[trashland-llamas]

Which fraternity is the dirtiest on campus?

‘I hope none of my professors watch this.’

[stevepotterwrites]

[hahahax30]

Fraternities/sororities are weird af because why tf are they called the Geek life? Why are their names random Greek letters? Is this one of the many instances where Greek culture is romanticised to an extreme and this looks stupid to actual Greek people or...

Because if I saw American cult-like social groups called ÑOP being referred to as Spanish life I'd just think it all incredibly idiotic lol

[vaingloriousworkshop]

Rejoignez nous sur Fraternities Now! — Pas de minimum de lignes ni de présence requise — Pas de membres en danger/suppressions — Multicomptes sans limites — Un forum inclusif et accueillant, basé sur la bonne entente — Un petit comité convivial et chaleureux — Version jour/nuit pour s'adapter à vos besoins — Design moderne et responsive

[lifewithaview]

Sarah Catherine Hook and Zac Burgess in Cruel Intentions (2024) Alpha

S1E1

Welcome to Manchester college. Caroline enlists Lucien's help to recruit the Vice President's daughter Annie Grover to join Delta Phi. Cece persuades Professor Chadwick to give her a coveted TA position.

*In the flashback scene to the Spring Formal, the orchestra plays an instrumental version of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, the song that is iconically used in "Cruel Intentions (1999)".

[fratnowrpg]

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