Swarthmore Fraternities Disband Over Leaked Documents That Detailed Misogyny

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The only two fraternities at Swarthmore College have unanimously agreed to disband and give up their houses, ending a four-day sit-in and weeks of protest by outraged students after the publication of documents chronicling years of misogynist, racist and homophobic remarks, as well as jokes alluding to sexual assault by members.

The decisions to dissolve Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon were announced on Facebook on Tuesday night, after what both said were weeks of deliberation.

The controversy began last month, after campus publications Voices and The Phoenix released anonymously leaked internal documents from Phi Psi, dating from 2010 to 2016.

The trove of files included minutes, detailing graphic sexual encounters with female students, lists of fraternity hazing challenges, and intimate videos and photographs of women that appear to have been taken without their consent. (In most instances, the papers report, the women have their backs to the camera.) One entry refers to an alleged "rape tunnel" and a "rape attic" in one of the fraternity headquarters.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/718969495/swarthmore-fraternities-disband-over-leaked-documents-that-detailed-misogyny

[MagickMuffin]

1. This culture of behavior has been the focal point of these fraternities for EVER

Disgusting. Now that their fraternities are dissolved they'll just move on to other methods to carry on with their behaviors. Nothing will change without their desire to change.

[MineralMan]

2. What is remarkable is that those stupid frat boys documented their

actions in detail. I wonder if that is common practice in fraternities. If so, perhaps an court-ordered search investigation into all of them is warranted. Let's see their papers and their secret videos. Let's have a look to see what they're up to behind those closed doors.

Or, make full disclosure a condition of their being allowed to exist on each campus. That would avoid the need for a court-ordered search. Either they allow access or they can shut down and leave the campus.

I'm betting that the majority of fraternities have evidence on-site that shows illegal or unconscionable behavior. It's the nature of the beast.