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Over the last 20 years, the autonomy of the fraternities has been eroded. With each year, IFC gives up authority in an unending process. This is most notable in judicial authority. Starting in 1909, IFC managed its own judicial affairs. For decades, IFC maintained a judicial board. This was watered down in the 1980s when it was combined with the PHA judicial board. In the mid to late 1990s, it seems this board took on more of an advisory role as most suspensions seemed to come from the Dean of Students than this board. In 2007, IFC participation in the process was further reduced when the Student Ethics Board took over the judicial proceedings. Though nearly 100% of the cases were IFC fraternities, the rules limited the IFC representation on the board to 2 or 3 of the 15 members. What kind of people not involved in fraternities wanted to spend their time disciplining IFC chapters? What impact did that have on the rulings at the time? In 2016, even this participation in the disciplinary process was eliminated. According to former Dean Veldkamp, “the board was removed because there is a national best practice for organizational conduct cases, which includes trained professional staff to ensure consistency, prevent bias in the decision making process, and retaliation against students involved in the process”. This statement is at odds with the reality. IU is one of only four schools (of 14) in the Big Ten where fraternity men have no say in the disciplinary process. Additionally, the avoidance of bias was the exact reason that Herman B Wells included students in the disciplinary and governmental processes at IU. Outside of the judicial changes, the other major recent change was the Housed Greek Organization Agreement in 2015. Fraternities had to sign a this highly controversial contract to be a recognized Housed Greek Organization. This new term conferred no new benefits that chapters had not already enjoyed. These benefits include academic reports, check listing and freshman housing waivers. In exchange for keeping these rights (some of which like academic reports have been enjoyed by the chapters since before World War I), chapters would have to give up rights regarding search and seizure, have a university approved live in advisor in the chapter house and establish a second advisory board with at least one faculty member.