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I think it was very unwise for FSPAC to involve themselves in this issue right now. I get what they're trying to do, but there's no way in hell that it's going to be interpreted as anything other than wanting to make it easier for fraternities to cover up sexual assaults. We don't need to be adding that kind of fuel to the fire in the midst of the Oklahoma/Penn State/NCSU incidents.
The other things that they're working towards don't seem to be particularly productive uses of their time, either. The part about making it harder for campuses to suspend the entire Greek system in the wake of allegations against one group isn't a terrible idea, but it'll be impossible to enforce--Greek judiciary systems are always investigating multiple incidents at a time, and the administration will just be able to say, "We're not suspending the system for this one thing that happened, it's about all these other things that have happened recently too." And the "no forcing Greek organizations to go co-ed" thing sounds good in theory, but in reality campuses who want to eliminate single-sex organizations will find a loophole just like Wesleyan did--housed chapters can't be single-sex but unhoused ones can, etc.
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