the fall of purdue greeks - from a (now former) λ

In the last week of April we received word that we were being further investigated for hosting a function, with the evidence being a folder of printouts of Instagram and facebook photos collected by some member of either IFC or the university who, using a list of active members, took the time to search each active individually on social media and save every photo that showed that member with their date for a sober dinner night we had to celebrate the graduating seniors. Again, these were screencaps of Instagram feeds showing photos of nothing more than a brother and their date in front of a brick wall. No alcohol, no location tags, nothing like that. Following their further “investigation,” we received word today that Purdue’s “reasonable suspicion” has ultimately resulted in the end of 100 years here at Purdue.

This is written as a warning to the Greeks on our campus. Your time is limited, and the university is coming for you. The social media step taken proved that Purdue is no longer trusting Greek organizations, but is systematically hunting them down and closing houses with years of tradition and history on campus. There was no event, accident, or drunk mishap that resulted in their April investigation. That was simply some member of the university checking brother’s social media accounts with no reasonable suspicion, with the goal of finding something, anything, to place blame for.

Long Live. RIP.

Farewell to one of the last real frats on campus

This makes me so sad & frustrated.

Muhahahaha everything is going according to my plan

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Sorry but it's not like Lambda Chi didn't have functions this year even though you were on probo. You still had tomorrow land, a Christmas party and Grand Prix and those are only the ones I went to. It sucks that you are getting kicked off but you aren't blameless either.

This is pretty much exactly what happened to Sig Ep. A picture of a few brothers with a crowd in the background was enough to launch an investigation (there was no alcohol at all in the picture). Hopefully the new SWARMA (i think that's right) agreement will help keep fraternities from getting in trouble.

Brandon Cutler must be stopped. Greek life is a great part of our school and our university should pride themselves in the organizations that are a part of it. It is statistically shown students involved in Greek life earn higher GPA's, are involved in more philanthropy and community organizations and thus give back more and serve more service hours then students not involved in the Greek community. WHY Cutler has gone this far- with this many organizations on campus- is beyond many students and staff. Many gentlemen of this fraternity are known well on campus both academically and professionally. The sanctions placed on them may have been deserved, but the abolishment of their organization for 5 years is overly harsh, unncecesary, and unfair.

Brandon Cutler is crazy! He re-Orged his own fraternity and kicked out his own biological brother. On top of that , when I heard him speak he told us that he wants all the houses at Purdue to become dry. So we got that to look forward to.