Is the End of Campus Greek Culture Near?
A faculty committee at Harvard has recommended the university phase out fraternities, sororities and final clubs. Alexandra Brodsky, civil rights attorney & Skadden Fellow at National Women's Law Center and co-founder Know Your IX, talks about the kind of culture the faculty committee is trying to end at Harvard, including hazing, binge drinking, rape culture and bigotry.Â
Scrap em.
— Joel Creasy (@the_real_JoelC) July 18, 2017
institutions like Harvard are rife with class-exclusive clubs, not just sex-exclusive, that the move serves to scrutinize (if bluntly) (2/2)
— Kevin Hazlett (@k_hazlett) July 18, 2017
@BrianLehrer In 1972 in college I was invited to a Harvard party and when I got there it was a sport to see how many girls would go.
— Ann Reed (@51Reed) July 18, 2017
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But not everyone agreed that the onus is on the fraternities themselves:
Fraternity culture is a product of campus culture. If the school is permissive of negative behavior, the groups will live up to that.
— Evangeline Warren (@alinzar) July 18, 2017
