Wesleyan University To Force Fraternities To Admit Women
Wesleyan Greek life has taken another big hit. You might recall that the school’s chapter of Beta Theta Pi was suspended by its national organization last month when a student was injured after falling from the house’s third floor window. Today, the university made an announcement saying all fraternities “must become co-ed within three years, submit to additional oversight and eliminate freshman ‘rushing’ activities or students will no longer be allowed to reside there.”
Kate Carlisle, a spokesperson for the university, claimed, “This has been under discussion for a long time, probably for a number of years. It’s not really in reaction or prompted by any incidents or recent events, but really more it’s part of the progression toward making sure that our campus reflects our value of gender equality.”
It always sucks to hear that a fraternity system is being effectively disallowed, but in the case of Wesleyan, it’s probably been a long time coming. The Beta chapter in particular has had a contentious relationship with the university for the better part of a decade. The fraternity has had an on and off housing dispute with the administration, and the chapter hasn’t been an officially recognized campus organization since 2005. Beta was also the location of a widely covered 2010 sexual assault that came on the heels of the university itself sending a student-wide email advising students to avoid the house, which had apparently come to be known as “The Rape Factory.” The non-member suspect was found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in prison. A lawsuit stemming from that incident was settled out of court earlier this year.
The lesson, as always, is to keep your head down and don’t do anything stupid, because universities are always looking for reasons to neuter their fraternities. Also don’t rape people, because no shit.
[via Hartford Courant]
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11 years ago at 5:59 pmThere was a movie about a coed frat house. it’s on netflix and terrible
11 years ago at 6:42 pmBut there’s lots of boobs in it.
11 years ago at 9:58 pmAlpha House, waist of an hour and a half
11 years ago at 11:30 pmwaste* ^learn to spell you fucking baboon
11 years ago at 9:06 amHonestly plays like it was written by a failed porn writer
11 years ago at 12:44 pmIsn’t that what sororities are for?
11 years ago at 6:01 pm“Becoming co-ed” = hazing female pledges and blackballing them right before initiation, right?
11 years ago at 6:03 pmAt the very least “thank you sir may I have another” will take on an entirely new meaning.
11 years ago at 1:02 pmLong con:
11 years ago at 6:15 pm1) Join Wesleyan sorority
2) Initiate and learn rituals
3) Transfer to a real school with a smoke show chapter of your sorority
4) Frofit (frat profit)
Not sure, but I doubt they will allow men to join sororities. Seems like the logical completion of this batshit crazy kind of thinking, but the liberal mind has many double standards and ironies yet to be explained by science.
11 years ago at 7:18 pmThe inverse of that is actually much more likely and a lot more scary. What do you do with the terrifying she-males that transfer to your school after your Wesleyan chapter initiates them?
11 years ago at 12:41 pmNot surprising coming from a school where some students prefer to be referred to by gender-neutral pronouns.
11 years ago at 6:16 pmInevitably women will be initiated simply because they are women, their character having little to nothing to do with it. What the fuck kind of equality is that?
11 years ago at 6:16 pmYou’re fucking agreeing with this policy? I’d rather see them shut down Greek life there than these shenanigans
11 years ago at 6:23 pmYou didn’t quite get through the first sentence did you?
11 years ago at 6:28 pmShow me where the writer disagrees with this change. What got me was “this has probably been a long time coming” in regards to this implementation. Everything else was just facts about beta and quotes
11 years ago at 8:15 pmThat was a quote from an administrator who was in favor of it you half-wit
11 years ago at 12:52 pm3rd paragraph, it’s not a quote. The change is fucking dumb but you are dumber.
11 years ago at 2:11 pmThis is never gonna fly. You don’t need a reason not to bid someone. They can say they’re co-ed all they want but there’s no way they’ll actually allow a woman to receive a bid.
11 years ago at 6:31 pmThis can either go extremely well or be a miserable failure. No middle ground.
11 years ago at 6:42 pmextremely well? gtfo of here
11 years ago at 10:04 pmthis is ridiculous. what’s the point then? there’s a reason there is a group for men and a group for women. you can’t force an organization to change their national landmarks, rituals, codes etc. just to promote “gender equality”. there are plenty of co-ed (NF) fraternities that already exist whose landmarks state that they are founded on the principle of being co-ed. just put those organizations on your campus so that those who wanna be in an environment that accepts both can do so. so simple.
11 years ago at 6:44 pm