Posted on 03/24/2015 12:54:22 PM PDT by rickmichaels
College fraternities and sororities, concerned that students accused of sexual assault are treated unfairly, are pushing Congress to make it harder for universities to investigate rape allegations.
The groups political arm plans to bring scores of students to Capitol Hill on April 29 to lobby for a requirement that the criminal justice system resolve cases before universities look into them or hand down punishments, according to an agenda reviewed by Bloomberg News.
If people commit criminal acts, they should be prosecuted and they should go to jail, said Michael Greenberg, leader of 241-chapter Sigma Chi, one of many fraternities participating in the legislative push.
The Fraternity & Sorority Political Action Committee, or FratPAC, and two other groups will ask Congress to block colleges from suspending all fraternities on a campus because of a serious incident at a single house. In addition, the Greek representatives want a rule against any mandate for chapters to go co-ed.
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What’s the over/under for Animal House references on this thread. I’ll say about 7.
***the criminal justice system resolve cases before universities look into them***
What a radical idea!
This may start a trend of universities becoming part of the USA again.
abolish frats
It might be worth parking the Frats off campus so that there is no perceived impropriety and so that should they become a community nuisance they will be dealt with in the real world. Just take it out of the hands of the administration and campus police altogether. OK, I admit it, my ulterior motive is to make it easier to study for everyone else ;)
The trouble is that once a fraternity is accused of this, they are done. Often there is no way of recovering, and the school will try like mad to shut them down no matter what.
My old house at Iowa State now has some rather strict rules about letting girlfriends off the first floor. Rules that were unknown when I was there.
abolish frats
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And athletic departments
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