There are a number of accounts of sexual assault, harassment and general misogyny and racism. The chapter of Phi Psi also asserted that these notes do not represent the present culture of the fraternity, but I find that just as hard to believe.īefore the documents were even leaked, Swarthmore students created a Tumblr page called “Why Swarthmore’s Fraternities Must Go.” The page contains anonymous posts about awful things happening in the college’s fraternity houses and parties. It is unclear whether current members knew about the documents beforehand, but I find it hard to believe they didn’t. The Google Drive folder that contained these disgusting notes was accessible to several past and present members of the fraternity and contains notes from 2010 to 2016. I also want to point out that it was only the release of these documents that prompted these fraternities to disband. While Swarthmore’s chapters of Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon both unanimously voted to disband, we shouldn’t really be praising them as exceptional they did what any decent group should do, and it took them more than ten days to do it. There were even references to a “rape attic” in one of the fraternities. The documents were horrifying and contained misogynistic, homophobic and racist language throughout. Last month at Swarthmore College, unofficial notes from the Phi Psi fraternity chapter were leaked to two on-campus newspapers. However, there are still many other Greek organizations that reinforce dangerous ideas and remain a threat to minority students. There are plenty of Greek organizations, such as Sigma Lambda Gamma or Kappa Lambda Xi, that aim to embrace multiculturalism and support minorities. First, I want to make a disclaimer before I get to the rest of this column: Not all Greek life is bad - I know that.
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