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why doesn’t ifc go off campus

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It doesn’t make sense to me why IFC doesn’t disaffiliate with the school. Strict alcohol policies, big hassle with administrative stuff like GME, and constant suspensions. Not to mention the constant turnover rate of frats getting kicked off campus. You might say cost but every Greek student pays $200 something a semester to the school that could easily be used to fund a house. Off campus houses might have a better lifespan than the current less than 10 year cycles of recolonization and getting kicked. The administration can target aepi for going off campus, but with 12 houses off campus? That’s too big of a force for the school to stop without extreme backlash. It’s time ifc recognizes its power and break free from the suffocating hand that is Vanderbilt administration.

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Good point

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Vanderbilt is a private university. You have no constitutional right of free association like you do at a public University like UT or Virginia.
Many elite private University that compete with Vanderbilt like Williams and Amherst have banned Greek life.
If Fraternities went off campus. The administration mightend greeklife alltogether.

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It really doesn't matter too much what the administration does at this point. Greek life has been strangled here for the past ten years with excessive rules and unfairly harsh punishments. Vanderbilt Greek Life is already a shell of what it used to be and while it can never return to those old days (more academic classes has brought fewer kids interested in Greek Life and fewer "fratty" kids overall), off campus might be the reprieve Greek Life needs to sustain itself (as much as it can anyway - its already poised to inevitably die out in the next 10 years). Also since the admin prefers that frats stay on campus (so that they can provide direct oversight and protect the Vanderbilt "brand"), moving off campus could send a powerful message that Greek Life isn't going to tolerate their unfair treatment. By moving off campus (and formally dissociating), Greek Life could bypass university oversight and not have to pay anything to the university. As much as OGL likes to imply that off campus will get kids in trouble, the reaility is that Vanderbilt's jurisdiction doesn't extend to the rest of Nashville and their are no legal grounds for the university to punish any student for off-campus association. Of course losing the house and the safety net of VUPD would be major drawbacks - but as far as sending a message go there are many things in play that make off campus work. If this is ever going to work, the best time to execute would have been yesterday since each second lost is another fraternity kicked off and another stupid rule put in place (no porch tailgates). Obviously this most likely would never get organized, but frankly moving off campus are the last legs Greek Life can hope to stand on if it wants to continue to exist at this university.

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