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Do we really think it was just one chapter? Generally, when campus admins punish an entire campus, it's not because there's one problem chapter in the news and the rest are fine. It's because there are many other chapters getting in trouble behind the scenes, and a campus culture of issues that the admin is well aware of--but the university doesn't want the P.R. firestorm that admitting that would create.
I'm sure that the CSUN administration is more aware about what kind of problems their Greek system is facing than we are.
I don't see independent Greek systems as a solution that fraternities are going to initiate anymore except in very, very rare cases. Insurance costs are just too high, and rising every year--HQs know that they need adult supervision on the ground at every chapter to prevent those risk management problems that will lead to them getting sued out of existence. Since HQs obviously can't afford to provide that themselves, they're dependent on the schools to do it for them. They're much more dependent on the schools than the schools are on them. This isn't the '70s or '80s, when you could afford not to worry about those lawsuits. (Fraternity HQs are also dependent on those schools to provide them with a sense of legitimacy--after all, a fraternity that's unaffiliated with a university and operates the way CSUN's Pi Kappa Phi did has little to differentiate it from a gang.)
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