UTA Suspends all Greek Activities
 

UT Arlington... not a hugely Greek campus.

This is such BS. It's complete "guilt" by association and the media. From the article:

"The decision was based not on a single event but "due to concerns regarding the culture of the fraternal community both at UTA and nationally," he said."

What a crock.

"and nationally"???

Round up the usual suspects.

Wtf? So basically, no one actually did anything, but they think if they keep Greeks from having activities everything will be fine. I’m sure this will prevent all the bad behavior that happens in dorms, off campus apartments and athletic houses.

Are these numbers correct? Anyone else think it is odd that they would have 31 chapters and only 800 members throughout the Greek community? Seems very low.

They have 8 NPHC groups and 9 MGC groups. It’s doubtful that any of these chapters are very large. There are 4 NPC sororities and 10 NIC fraternities.

The UT-Arlington Fraternity and Sorority Life Chapter Conduct and Outcomes webpage admits that some 2018-19 groups did not meet appropriate standards of behavior. They also list groups found to have hazed during any of the past three years.

Probably because it's the last month of the semester, the university has taken initiative against its greek groups.

Have there been previous end-of-year greek traditions that somehow get out of hand on this campus, causing the university to now desire restraining the activities of their greeks?

I know I'm probably beating a dead horse here, but this is a violation of these students' civil rights. The school is telling them they can't wear letters on campus (1st Amendment says you can wear what you damn well please). School says events are forbidden and gatherings of 3 or more members are events (right to peaceably assemble). School is saying that non residents can't go to their respective fraternity houses. I'm wondering how in the hell the school thinks it has the right to regulate student conduct on private property?

Greek organizations need to start suing universities who do this bullshit. These schools need to be put in their place. They need to start operating within their lawful limits.

If Greek organizations stand by and allow this sort of behavior, it will become normalized.

Times are changing. Greek life is dying.

Disagree. Changing isn’t dying. This apparently isn’t necessarily a school that can support national groups. That doesn’t mean no Greeks will exist.

Agree with 33!

Not at all. While we do have to adjust to new realities, our memberships are just fine.

My husband is an alum of one of the UTA fraternities and had some specifics. Apparently one of the fraternities (who I will leave nameless) recently had a party to announce their little sisters. At said party, one of the fraternity new members was forced to drink heavily and ended up in the hospital with a .5 BAC. That is very near death.

This was pretty much the final straw. Looks like UTA has been ignoring issues in the Greek community for a while.

Sexual Assault and Alcohol Abuse at UTA

Well that is not what they said. It will be interesting to see what the Arlington Voice investigation digs up. I am still skeptical of punishment for all because one house did something bad. Punish the offenders.

Agreed. And banning Greek life will by no means end sexual assault on campus. Neither will it fix the problem of how universities deal with it.

More trouble at UT Arlington.

A woman has alleged that she was sexually assaulted at a fraternity house over the weekend. Apparently, prohibiting all Greek social events did not stop assaults in fraternity houses. Shocking.

UTA Police investigating rape

UTA is my alma mater so I have been trying to keep somewhat of an eye on this situation.

Basically this.

They tried doing this when I was an undergrad ~15 years ago. Essentially, one or two IFC orgs acted up at a retreat and, because no one would go on record, they tried holding everyone accountable.

Back then, a TON of us (my loud ass included lol) raised a stink so that was overturned quickly. Plus, we had a lot more support (read: mintority/NPHC/MGC resources) so staff stood up for us when the hammer came down unnecessarily.

I hope someone on staff steps up for current membership.

That seems right. UTA was (and kind of still is) a largely commuter campus, even given its size. It's gotten bigger and more "traditional" since I've left, but I can't imagine that things have switched up enough for our numbers to be on par with SEC or anything.

Most of the chapters are small-ish.
If I remember correctly, chapter totals for IFC/NPC were ~30-60. NPHC and MGC were lower (<20).

Yea I remember a lot of crap like that happening. I'm glad they are taking action, but they swung the pendulum too far this time.

Amen.