I think this was the policy at UCLA back in the ‘60s.
I don’t like the singling out of “white men” as the villains...but overall I think this move is a good thing.
Freedom of assembly is right there in the first amendment to the US constitution.
They can still join BLM, La Raza and Antifa right?
They ought to wait until their sophomore year...................
Just wondering, if there were fraternities not located on campus, what effing business would it be to low IQ admin campus non academic leeches what group a student joined?
As loathsome as most fraternities appear to be, I’d go to a good attorney (e.g., not a liberal one) and take those clowns to court.
Dormitories are a profit center for universities.
Most require freshman to live in the dorms and get a meal plan. This can run in the range of $15K at year or more.
The frats are cutting in on USC’s captive market.
I wish the Trojan band knew how to play more than one song.
My (private) university had the same policy when I pledged a sorority back in the 90s, and I would imagine it still does. Freshmen could not go through rush until the spring semester; there was a smaller fall rush for sophomores and above. My college best friend and I went through spring rush during our sophomore year, but a couple of my good friends from high school went through fall rush just before school started their freshman year at a state school. Both girls failed out of school by the end of that year (one by the end of the first semester!). I’m sure most people could handle it, but those two sure couldn’t, lol.
I don’t regret being required to wait for spring rush; it gave us all a chance to get settled before Greek madness began.
Not a bad policy change at all. Gives the rising Freshmen students time to adjust to college.
But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but I for one am not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!