Tag: sororities

07 NOV

Florida State University bans all 55 sororities and fraternities on campus after student dies

Screenshot Via YouTube TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State becomes at least the third university this year to suspend Greek life because of alcohol-related tragedies. University President John Thrasher announced the indefinite suspension on Monday of the school’s 55 fraternities and sororities following the death of a freshman pledge. Andrew Coffey, a pledge at Pi […]

23 JUL

Harvard may end fraternities, sororities, and final clubs by punishing students who join them

EllenSeptember/flickr (Slate) — An official Harvard University committee has recommended that the administration prohibit all students from joining exclusive, traditionally single-gender social clubs like fraternities, sororities, and so-called “final clubs.” After a damning report found that Harvard final clubs enabled a culture of sexual violence, the school moved last spring to force all final clubs—centuries-old, usually […]