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The faculty opinion of the fraternities is not good. If you want insight into the views of the faculty, look at the Bloomington Faculty Council meeting minutes. They are available online and searchable by keyword. Faculty members recently have suggested things like requiring RAs in the fraternities, regulating the private chapter houses as if they were no different from university dorms, reducing the pledge period (at Cornell, pledgeship is limited to four weeks), deferred men’s rush (like Vanderbilt, GW, USC, and Penn State), and a whole host of other bad ideas. Members of the faculty that have also directly expressed their desire to see fraternities eliminated altogether. If you are a leader in the fraternity system, please take the time to read some of these minutes. It is important to understand where university faculty and staff are coming from if you want to make changes. It seems that while fraternities and their alumni are still committed to making IU stronger, IU does not share the same commitment towards the fraternities. What was for decades a successful partnership between the chapters and the university has become a dysfunctional relationship. Members of the IU staff have on occasion crossed the line when it comes to dealing with fraternities. Some members of university administration their way through threats, bullying, and abuse of the IFC/PHA officers and chapter presidents. I won’t get into the details of my personal experiences with IUs administration as an undergraduate as this is not about me. Suffice to say my experiences with some members of the administration do not reflect well on the university at all. Another concerning development is the circumstances surrounding the suspension last year. Now you can say that this was a decision IFC came to on its own but I don’t believe that for a second. I am familiar with how back room meetings go with IU admins and though I wasn’t in that one, I can probably write a script for it based on my own experiences. Suspending Greek life because other campuses do it isn’t a good reason. Did it solve anything? Sound policy is made based on fact, not for the purposes of social signaling or because “we have to do something”. The simple fact is that if you and your leaders on IFC don’t stand up for your rights, then no one will. Alumni simply don’t have the time to fight this battle for you. If you don’t fix things, this encroachment will only continue to get worse as it has in recent years. If you don’t fix it, I don’t believe any chapters will survive the current purge.