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The first path is to continue the concessions. Based on my experience, IU will keep moving the goal posts. A few years ago, the “ask” was event registration, then it was the Housed Greek Organization Agreement, last year it was the suspension and on and on it will go. The next ask is deferred rush even though the only multi-campus study on the matter, which was done by Gamma Sigma Alpha, shows that fall rushees have better academic results. IFC’s leaders made these concessions with the best intentions but over the years, it has only weakened our chapters and IFC. Presently, four 100+ year old chapters are off campus. These were organizations that survived WW1, the Great Depression, WW2 and the 1970s, yet they all have been expelled from IU in just four years. I have no doubts this path will eventually result in the death of Greek life at IU. The second path is what I recommend. Restore self-governance and a true partnership with IU. How can IFC claim to be a self-governing organization, when the important questions, such as what organizations live or die, are made by outside bodies? IU’s current system has resulted in a greater percentage of our chapters being suspended than at any other campus in the US. At most Big Ten campuses as well as all the strong SEC Greek systems, discipline is handled by an IFC judicial board instead of the Dean’s office. This results in greater compliance as it ensures fair and equal treatment. IFC used have a judicial board appointed by its executive board. This must be restored but it requires coordination between IFC and IUSG. Chapter executives must make sure no fraternity member votes for any ticket for IUSG that does not make full restoration of this judicial authority its primary policy. This partnership will benefit IU as well as fraternities will view themselves as part of the university and not as its advisories. Fraternities can be a positive for the university as Herman B Wells understood. If you want to see what a IFC and university partnership looks like in the modern era, look at Alabama. Here you have the strongest Greek system in the country that also does a tremendous amount of good for the university.