Oy vey. Are you sitting down? The local newspaper in Iowa City has published an article giving the breakdown of non-traffic citations or arrests (largely alcohol-related) of students at the U of Iowa. One of the five tables printed deals with fraternities, while another deals with sororities – BY HOUSE NAME – for the last six academic years. Other tables deal with residence hall students, athletes (male and female), and so on. The tables appear to indicate that a higher percentage of Greeks are cited or arrested than residence hall students.
A vice president of one of the NPC chapters is quoted as saying, “We are not going out more or drinking more than we have before. It's the increase in enforcement. They [the police] are all over the place." An alumnus of an NIC fraternity is quoted as saying, "We have several fraternities that seem to be significantly out of line with their peers. . . .I would be in there pounding the table.”
All in all, not the sort of publicity that U of Iowa Greeks probably want, especially those chapters that have high citation/arrest percentages. I’d guess that in some instances local, regional or national advisers / officers will get involved, but I certainly could be wrong.
For at least one sorority there may not be a whole lot of "pressure": the percentage of members cited /arrested in the entire 6-year period is ZERO for Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pb...411110322/1079
Sorority & Fraternity Rankings (?!) at U of Iowa
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