Phi Kappa Psi at U of Virginia Voluntarily Suspends Activities

[SOM]

Life After Rolling Stone: UVA Students See 'Jackie' As Opportunity To Reform Sexist Greek System http://www.ibtimes.com/life-after-ro...-greek-1749631

[1964Alum]

Originally Posted by SOM

The Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA); College Student Educators International (ACPA); the Association of Student Conduct Administrators (ASCA); and Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA); issue this statement in response to the recent fallout from the Rolling Stone article regarding the student and institutional responses to sexual assault at the University of Virginia. These events illuminate the duty of all professionals on our campuses to ensure that accusations of sexual assault, including those involving members of fraternities and sororities, are handled in a manner that protects the rights and well-being of victims of sexual violence. https://t.e2ma.net/webview/6w1oj/d8c...d90352bf0f7c57

Excerpted: We call on the leadership of both our campus based professionals and our fraternities and sororities to work collaboratively with other campus partners, including administrators, to protect the rights of all students and work to improve the fraternity/sorority experience and the safety of our campus communities

This sounds very good to me and a step in the right direction. I will be very interested in seeing what new/revised protocols come out of these discussions across the country.

[SOM]

Fraternities have two choices: Keep the status quo, or usher in a new era of proactiveness in the face of sexual assault.

Fraternities in a Post-U-VA World

Whether Rolling Stone’s article is factual or not, fraternities have two choices: Keep the status quo, or usher in a new era of proactiveness in the face of sexual assault. http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...DB&via=FB_Page

[SOM]

Not only GLO's: It went on for FOUR decades.
Bob Jones University Told Sex Abuse Victims It Was Their Fault: Report http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...ushpmg00000052

[SOM]

CSU fraternity suspended after sexual assault allegation-CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland State University fraternity has been suspended until further notice after an allegation of a sexual assault against one of its members. http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local...tion/20376871/

[ASTalumna06]

A Frat Boy's Confession: An Open Letter to the Fraternity Men of America

https://thejesuitpost.org/2014/12/a-...en-of-america/

If these were isolated incidents, then we could handle each incident swiftly. We could punish the guilty accordingly and place the victim on his or her path to becoming whole again. But these aren’t isolated incidents. There’s a pattern that allows us men (let’s be honest – boys) to use violent means like hazing and rape to exercise dominion over others. The targets of such violence? Those deemed subordinate, especially those “girls” (never do we call them sisters or women, mind you) as well as younger members of our Greek letter societies. They are supposedly weaker; easier prey for a wolfpack of boys to feast upon.

But boys will be boys, right? That’s just how us guys act, right? This is college, bro! Right? This attitude – the enabling, the dismissing, the “all in good fun” attitude – keeps us Greeks from maturing into the leaders that both materials from our national organizations and our ritual claim us to be and hope us to experience. The longer we bros maintain this attitude, the more horror stories of drugging, gang rape, and hazing we will read about in newspapers. I should know. Unwittingly and with the best of intentions, I was an enabler of such violence. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions…

ETA: I just noticed the second picture in the article (of the banner). It's pretty deplorable.

[1964Alum]

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! These will be the fraternity men who are respected and admired on campus.

Excerpted:
How can we move forward? How can we candidly talk about the reality of sex and violence on campus? Brothers, we need your help. Women need our help. School communities need our help. Name the parasitic evil that sucks the life and love and joy from campus and from people’s lives. Name it for what it is – a rancid mix of immaturity and misogyny that lets boys be boys, teaches younger members to accept this as normal, and burdens women with pain, fear, and unreasonable expectations to correct the injustice themselves.
Naming the problem isn’t enough – we need to stop it. Naming something gives us power over it. So let us name the evil so we can keep it out in the open for all to see. Let us name the evil so we Greeks are transformed into leaders for supportive, healthy living for all college students. Let’s learn from our mistakes and, buoyed by faith in our letters, create a culture of care. Then, by loving all we meet, we can hope for a better university life.

[honorgal]

Department of Justice: Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among
College-Age Females 1995-2013

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsavcaf9513.pdf

[33girl]

Bob Jones University?? Lol SERIOUSLY??? Why would you think anything out of there has any basis in reality??

[DrPhil]

Honorgal, I hope you are not posting that to dispel the notion of a "college rape crisis". That is not at all what this research (that isn't the only study) does. We already know that college sexual assault and rape is not more prevalent than non-college sexual assault and rape. The "college bubble" is about social isolation and does not mean the rates would be higher than in the general population.

[honorgal]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Honorgal, I hope you are not posting that to dispel the notion of a "college rape crisis". That is not at all what this research (that isn't the only study) does. We already know that college sexual assault and rape is not more prevalent than non-college sexual assault and rape. The "college bubble" is about social isolation and does not mean the rates would be higher than in the general population.

Some people might want to see the data for themselves, rather than have you (or the media) interpret it for them. If not, it's simply a tiny bit of wasted bandwidth here.

Anyhoo, as the numbers show, the 1 in 5 or 20% rate is actually 0.6% Just a tad bit of an exaggeration.

Not at all sure what you mean by "the college bubble" is about social isolation? Social isolation refers to a lack of interaction or contact with others. I think we would find more prevalence of that in non-student populations.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Honorgal, I hope you are not posting that to dispel the notion of a "college rape crisis". That is not at all what this research (that isn't the only study) does. We already know that college sexual assault and rape is not more prevalent than non-college sexual assault and rape. The "college bubble" is about social isolation and does not mean the rates would be higher than in the general population.

One of the interesting things here is that women in college are less likely to report. That in itself speaks to a problem with rape culture on campus and the type of backlash that would be feared by someone in the social isolation of a university.

[1964Alum]

It boggles the mind that the world of GLOs are acknowledging the problem and dealing constructively with it and *one* of the posters here continues on this sad and sorry campaign of denial. A dead end if there ever was one.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by 1964Alum

It boggles the mind that the world of GLOs are acknowledging the problem and dealing constructively with it and *one* of the posters here continues on this sad and sorry campaign of denial. A dead end if there ever was one.

This sounds like "you stupid patriarchally oppressed girl, don't you realize you were raped? How dare you get on with your life with no issues?"

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by 33girl

This sounds like "you stupid patriarchally oppressed girl, don't you realize you were raped? How dare you get on with your life with no issues?"

What is your post about?