In 2017, a UCLA student filed a Title IX complaint against another student for sexually assaulting her and won. (Her attacker, Blake Lobato, was expelled.) She is now suing two fraternities and a student group representing the interests of other frats on campus in order to change “a culture of alcohol abuse and…
On Wednesday, a former member of Penn State University’s Beta Theta Pi chapter, pled guilty to charges stemming from the death of 19-year-old Timothy Piazza following a hazing ritual in February 2017.
The fraternity Pi Delta Psi has been banned in the state of Pennsylvania for the next decade, after a Baruch College freshman died following a brutal hazing ritual.
Florida State University president John Thrasher announced on Monday that all of the school’s fraternities and sororities have been suspended indefinitely, the Washington Post reports. The restrictions are comprehensive; they forbid fraternities and sororities from indulging in intramural activities, parties,…
Town and Country dropped a fun little look into the wild and wooly world of sorority rush consultants, a job that I didn’t even realize was actually a job, and it is fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.
A judge has thrown out involuntary manslaughter charges against eight Beta Theta Pi brothers at Penn State who, in February, waited 40 minutes to call 911 in order to help a brother who laid unconscious in a rigor mortis-like state. District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller had argued that they had rushed 19-year-old…
Whatever goes on during hazing week (or punch week, or whatever)–followed by heavy underage drinking every other week–may be exiled from Harvard’s premises. This morning, a committee of Harvard faculty members recommended that, starting in 2018, the college forbids incoming students from joining “fraternities,…
On Friday, 18 Penn State University students were charged in the death of 19-year-old Timothy Piazza, a fellow student who died during a fraternity pledge night on February 4.
A 40-year-old South Carolina attorney has been sentenced to six months in prison for defrauding her sorority sisters of money meant to furnish a new house. Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan was convicted in July of defrauding the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at the University of Alabama. Meehan testified that while she admittedly…
The University of Missouri’s Delta Upsilon fraternity was suspended in late September after members shouted racial slurs at students who are a part of the group Legion of Black Collegians. It turns out the Mizzou chapter was already under disciplinary probation for issues with drinking and allegations of assault.
Virginia Tech’s Theta Iota chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has been banned from campus for 10 years for abusive conduct and hazing after a pledge reported that he and his fellow pledges had been blindfolded and beaten up as part of a hazing ritual.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has suspended the school’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) after a member complained to the university about a pattern of bigoted behavior.
An Alabama sorority decided to print t-shirts that featured both a caricatured black man eating watermelon and field laborers picking cotton just behind him. They reportedly made these shirts for their spring formal, even after the school told them not to. Guess what happened.
In a move that will prompt a lot of anguished howling among people for whom college was the most important time of their lives, Harvard has announced it will place new restrictions on members of the school’s “final clubs.” Those are chummy, very old single-sex organizations where money sloshes merrily in every…
The University of Mississippi is investigating the Sigma Chi fraternity after a Facebook post accused its members of subjecting female students to humiliation during a competition.
The editor of Bwog, one of Columbia University’s student-run newspapers, has resigned over a photo of a woman standing near alcohol bottles at the house of sorority Kappa Alpha Theta. Sorority houses aren’t usually allowed to have alcohol; the paper apologized for publishing the image “without considering the full…
A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Yale chapter is being accused of declining black students from entering a Halloween party by telling them, “White girls only.”
Earlier this week, University of Alabama sophomore and member of the school student government Alex Smith wrote an op-ed for campus paper the Crimson White about her decision to stop working with “the Machine.” The college’s old boy’s club is also known as Theta Nu Epsilon, and it’s comprised of members of…
The University of Alabama’s not-so-secret political coalition The Machine, which controls their Student Government via approved members of the Greek system, has dissent in its midst. On Monday, the student paper The Crimson White published an op-ed from a senator who says she no longer wants to work under their…
Black student groups at UCLA are understandably unhappy after reports leaked out of a predominantly white fraternity and sorority that held a “Kanye Western” themed mixer. According to the student paper, guests wore “baggy clothes, plumped lips and padded bottoms, or as “Kardashians.”
