Another dumb chapter
 

April 10, 2004 -- Mount Vernon
Hazing Allegations At Cornell College

The Greek organizations at Cornell College in mount vernon are under investigation following reports of hazing.

The alleged incident involved the Delta Phi Rho fraternity. Seven recruits say they were forced to live in a wet basement without access to showers and toilets and were also deprived of sleep.

All pledging was suspended last month for the fourteen Greek groups on the Cornell campus.

A task force has been appointed for the investigation and a report is due in September.

That particular local may be dumb, but I have to applaud the actions of one of the sororities there. The Sioux City Journal's story on this mess points out that the police investigated after members of the Phi Omega sorority expressed their concern --they were at that fraternity house for a party and evidently notice something was wrong. While I know nothing about that college's Greek system, I have to say at least some members of it were willing to blow the whistle on something that's unacceptable.

But, suspend pledging for all 14 chapters because of what one chapter did? That hardly seems fair, unless they have more information than that!

Dee

I was wondering the same thing. I can see kicking off one... but ALL?

Anyone have any info as to how exactly Cornell expects to "investigate" this situation by terminating new pledging for these 14 groups?

Is Cornell a private or public institution? If public, these groups need to get legal representation.

I would think the university is concerned with Hazing as a Greek wide issue, and thus, has suspended pledging. It doesn't say the chapters were suspended. When a university has no idea of how much hazing is going on, or believes that hazing is rampant, catching one group can open a window to investigate them all. Kudos to the sorority who pointed this out...

Cornell College is private. There once were national GLOs, but many, many years ago, they mandated that the system go local. I wouldn't be surprised if they mandate that the locals go national, as a remedy.

I also wouldn't be surprised if they did away with them altogether. Mt. Vernon, Iowa, which is where Cornell College is, is a very small conservative midwestern town (like maybe 4000 people, not including students) and they don't want a lot of hoopla.

Cornell is a very small private college. The Greek community is old but is not policed at all. The girl I lived with two years ago was in a sorority there in the late 90s and she went on and on about how they hazed and some of the things they made their pledges do. I was in shock just listening to some of the things they did!

That's very odd that this coolege would mandate that all GLO's go local.
Do you know the reason for that?

I think hazing is a really big problem in this part of the country with local GLOs, which is really a bad reflection on those of us who were in more traditional Greek systems.

I know Luther College also has some problems with locals, and I've heard some pretty nasty rumors from the Dubuque schools as well.

Very small???

And Cornell, if I'm not mistaken, isn't just private - at least at one of its schools it's public I believe.

-Rudey

Cornell College (not to be confused with Cornell University)

from www.cornellcollege.edu
That's pretty small.

LOL OK my mistake I thought you were talking about the University so I was confused. Sorry about that.

-Rudey
--Wow that is small.

Isn't Cornell College affiliated in some way with the Methodist Church? And isn't tuition + room and board there around $27,000 a year? The college might be concerned about negative PR that could impact applications -- unless there are a lot of parents with a desire to shell out private college costs to have their children hazed.

Rudey, like you I missed that also along with others.:o

Usually Religious schools are small. William-Jewell was tied into Methodist Church until the right for gays to be allowed the same rights as anyother student. Collegits voted Yes, Methodists said okay, no funding! School said so be it! Good for the school!:cool:

Shorter College in Rome, Ga. said no more for Locals because of Hazing and wanted only National Greek Organizations. Still working on it! CARNATION is resident expert on that front!

Alfred U, in NY, KICKED ALL Greek Organizations off of Campus for what a hazing stunt went wrong and a student died, belonging to a Local.

Will have to check that web site for more Info!:)

Russ, cannot agree with you more, why kick off Nationals and go Locals? Nationals have or try to have better controls in place!:)