So what bad stuff does happen at frat and sorority events?

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Anonymous wrote:I was in a fraternity and we never had a problem with sexual assault, abuse or the like. We were also the only house I know of that actually didn't haze members. A fraternity or sorority that hazes is the type of place that fosters the kind of abuse reported.

I don't think throwing the greek system off campuses will solve the problem, because social clubs will continue off campus. My school threw ZBT off campus for hazing and they just became on unaffiliated social club off campus.

I wish I had a good solution. The fact of the matter is that individuals will do things in a group that they would never do on their own. Add lots of alcohol to that and the problem gets worse.

The solution is for men to stop feeling entitled to women's bodies and to stop raping people.

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Anonymous wrote:There ought to be a night nationwide in which victims place ribbons or flags in front of the locations where they were attacked. I think that would be rather eye-opening.

Wow, what a great idea. I wonder though, if it would be difficult and anxiety producing for victims to do that.

Was at Penn in (late) 1980s, early 90s. There was an infamous "train" rape at a fraternity - covered on 60 Minutes... Lots of Take Back the Night rallies, writing names of sex offenders on library walls, faculty book called Fraternity Date Rape (reissued in later editions: http://www.amazon.com/Fraternity-Gang-Rape-Brotherhood-Privilege/dp/0814740383/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416949879&sr=8-2&keywords=peggy+reeves+sanday) etc... and mocking skits on SNL (may I touch you here?)

Fast forward 25ish years... rinse, lather, repeat - privilege is as privilege does... and schools sweep stats under the rug b/c no one wants to send their daughters to the rapist schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I was super active in greek life in college. With that being said, I had two friends die, one from alcohol poisoning and another from drugs, after frat parties. Another friend of mine was raped, given a drug and passed out and when she woke up something was raping her. I was also the GF of a frat guy and had guys expect that I would be passed around to them as a "present" (their words) when my BF (their frat bro) was done with me. Seen people go into shock from drugs, had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance, from drugs. All of that stuff with the exception of the two deaths, got brushed under the rug and never touched by any media. But I saw much of it with my own eyes and talked to my friend about her rape and saw the pain in her eyes. The older I get the more I realize how dangerous that scene is, even though it can be a lot of fun.

WTF? Did you go to University of Compton?

Ha. She probably did but at least she was in a "top" sorority.

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If someone tells me they were in a sorority or fraternity in college I think less of them. I assume they were hazing people or allowed someone to haze them.

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Anonymous wrote:If someone tells me they were in a sorority or fraternity in college I think less of them. I assume they were hazing people or allowed someone to haze them.

Because they're all the same after all.