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To try to find some answers, I started out by putting together a huge data set of comps. I looked at how IU’s fraternities were performing in discipline and academics compared to the 49 most similar fraternity systems in the country. How many house chapters does each system have? How many members? How many chapters have been suspended over the last 20 years? How is discipline handled? Is it run top down like IU with little to no student input or do students have some say in the process to ensure reasonability and fairness? I will provide that data a little later in this work. After looking at our comparative performance, I identified the primary operating deficiencies, their causes and sources, and suggested specific remedies. This is advice is targeted only at the fraternities and their leadership as that’s where I have the most knowledge. While I am certainly concerned with the direction IU’s sororities have headed in recent years, being a guy, I really don’t have the experience and knowledge necessary to give detailed advice to those organizations and thus I feel it would be inappropriate for me to make any detailed suggestions on that front. All I will say on the matter is that it is of very little surprise to me that within just a few years of getting rid of bed quota and having very few seniors live in, we went from zero sororities ever being kicked off campus to one sorority suspended and at least three others on very thin ice. I don’t believe in coincidences. Before jumping into anything, I want to make it clear that this post is not about bashing the IU administration. However, I am not the type to ignore a situation when I think a wrong has been done. I also apologize in advance for my naturally sarcastic tone. Generations of my family have attended IU and have donated generously to the school. I love IU and have been coming to basketball and football games since before I could walk. I count my time on campus as some of the best times of my life and I want the university to succeed. However, I also want an administration that fully supports student rights. Part of the mission of any great university is to prepare its students to become leaders and productive citizens. How can it do that while encroaching on the very rights citizenship grants? In this write up, I am particularly concerned with the issues of due process, self-governance and free association.