All IFC Fraternities at Syracuse University on Probation
 

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/med...-3691473.shtml

Many greeks on Syracuse University campus are outraged in public sentiment, and, as far as I know, the greek advisor is hiding in his office, not returning calls or e-mails. As a student at this school I will refrain from my posting my personal opinion on this, but does anyone else have any thoughts?

Is this true or an April Fool's Day joke? It just seems like a really sketchy, short article not backed up with any reasons for the probation.

I'm going with April Fools.

I would say it was normally, but our exec board told us that it is true. More should come, I'm sure, and rumors have been circulating on campus about this since this weekend.

This is an April Fool's joke.

I don't think it's a joke. The letter from Eddie Banks Crossen was sent to our Fraternity HQ.

The e-mail I received from my chapter's president says otherwise. I know its ironic that this was published on April Fools Day, but all the fraternities have been put on probation as of Tuesday, March 31st. All social events that have been planned by the fraternities for the upcoming weekend have been cancelled, and I will be posting updates as they occur. Maybe I should have waited for tomorrow to post the article, but as a Syracuse University student I assure you all that this is true. Usually in this forum the articles speak of only a few fraternities or sororities that are on probation, and I thought that the fact that the entire council was on probation was an interesting and rare occurrence.

If it is true, the Greek life director needs to get on the stick and give out further details. Not to mention, what of the money the sororities might lose if they had social events planned with the fraternities? That isn't fair to them.

If it is true, I'd love to see IFC/NPC drop their university affiliations until this director is fired. I'd love for the national organizations to back them on this. Such a blanket action on the university's part is going to be difficult to justify and I think it'd be great if the organizations would just call their bluff.

Thats a really good point Kevin. All the fraternity president and the campus IFC are having a meeting with the director tomorrow, so we'll see what happens.

Excellent.

I've always been a proponent of the 'nuclear option' at public schools where the Greek Life office was being unreasonable. Here, it looks like the risk of being booted from campus is being unreasonably increased by a prejudiced administration. The thing to do is for organizations (with the support of their nationals) to simply let the university know that they refuse to be part of their little game and that when the university is ready to act responsibly, they'll come back.

My guess is that as soon as the campus Greek Life officer finds himself in this position and sees that he no longer really has a job function that he'll either run up the white flag or at least open the door to your organizations getting a more fair shake from his office. Prolonged withdrawal would probably cost this guy his job if that's the only thing he does, so if your nationals are behind you, then you hold all the cards here.

May not be IFC to blame.
 

I know that my fraternity was basically kicked out of IFC a few years ago. It had absolutely nothing to do with IFC but with the university itself. It's because we didn't sign on to our campus's new Alcohol Policy. They revoked our Student Organization status and therefor disqulified us from IFC. (We ended up signing with the alcohol policy later because our numbers began to drop and we needed the student org status to help build us back up.)

If this is truly the opinion of the University than I feel sorry for them; they appear to have fallen for the Greek stereotype (Binge Drinking, Party all the Time, pranking, etc.) and miss out the good side of fraternal life.

And Greek Life has such a long and rich tradition at SU...:(

Syracuse Social Probation Ends

Brief article reports:

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/med...-3698334.shtml

So in other words, this was a "sit in the classroom till you finish your homework" sort of thing and they had to make this big deal of it that got splashed all over the internet? How stupid.