![]() ![]() The USC undergraduate student body passed its own resolution opposing deferred recruitment. In 2015, the Academic Senate passed a resolution calling for deferred recruitment of first-year students until the spring, noting that more students missed class or attended class exhausted or intoxicated during their pledging commitments. The issue of fall rush has long been a flashpoint at USC. USC declined to respond to questions about the fairness of its process or potential effect on reporting wrongdoing. “They are creating a silencing effect for members of the community to hold individuals accountable and report the behavior to the school for fear that other members who did nothing wrong. Horras, whose national organization is supporting the USC breakaway groups, said the university’s group sanctions were backfiring. “We reached a final point where the groups did not want to go through another year of this type of system,” said Judson Horras, president of the North American Interfraternity Conference, which represents more than 6,200 member chapters in 57 national and international men’s fraternities. Most were not able to resume events until March due to lengthy new safety training requirements, he said.ĭespite months of negotiations between USC and the fraternities, the two sides could not reach agreement on the scope of sanctions or a faster timeline to resolve their conflicts. ![]() For instance, he said, USC banned all social events from November 2021 through January 2022 even for fraternities that had done no wrong. Murphy said members that separated from USC did so because they felt the university’s policies toward Greek organizations were unfair and flawed. The breakaway fraternities in the new council are: Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Alpha Order, Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Zeta Beta Tau. The University Park Interfraternity Council is abiding by all of these rules and will not admit any fraternity facing misconduct allegations, he said. Some chapters even hired emergency medical technicians for parties, he said, and all social events are staffed by third-party security guards and licensed professional bartenders. In fact, he said, the 15 chapters that were members of the USC Interfraternity Council last year first recommended most of the strict rules issued by a university working group after multiple allegations of drugging and sexual assault at Sigma Nu and other fraternity house parties in fall 2021.įraternity leaders came up with the rules to post security guards at hallways leading to bedrooms, create “sober rooms” to provide drunk partygoers with water and food, provide toxicity testing kits for those who suspect they had been drugged, and require alcohol to be served in closed containers. “I want to say unequivocally that no, we are not disaffiliating to dodge these social event policies that were put into place,” said Murphy, a senior majoring in political science and history. Students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to not join or affiliate with these organizations.”īut Harrison Murphy of the newly formed University Park Interfraternity Council, an umbrella organization for the breakaway chapters, said Friday the claim that they were rebelling against strict party rules is untrue. Some groups are undertaking unauthorized recruitment. They are not subject to oversight by university staff, and have elected to forgo support resources and other benefits provided to recognized student groups. “The following groups are NOT AFFILIATED with USC. The university has posted a prominent warning against the breakaway fraternities on the campus Greek life portal: USC strongly criticized the move to disaffiliate and invite first-year students to rush, saying in a statement that such fall recruitment “has been repeatedly shown to be unsafe for new students.” The university, which stripped the breakaway fraternities of the right to use the USC name, logo or campus Greek life resources, also asserted they were “chafing at procedures and protocols designed to prevent sexual assault and drug abuse and deal with issues of mental health and underage drinking.” ![]()
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