Greek Life Situation At RPI

Magnetron
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:05:13 +0000

They didn’t really lift the restrictions. The new directive suspended all rush activities until after October 18th and banned alcohol at fraternities, even if someone is 21 and the house is privately owned. Every fraternity member or alumni who will participate in rush activities must complete a training program that does not exist yet. Only fraternities in the good graces of the administration will be allowed to participate in rush. Net effect is that it will further reduce participation of students going forward.

I’m not sure what SAJ’s long term goal is wrt Greek Life, other than her attempts to buy the independent houses and manage them as dorm contracts. It would also give them access to some of the prime real estate adjacent to campus and dorm areas. Alumni openly critical of her administrative efforts have largely been Greek. They are the ones who have a communication network not open to administrative input and manipulation.

She brought in two administrators with a history of open hostility to fraternities at previous colleges, Travis Apgar and LeNorman Strong.

I stopped recommending RPI a while ago. My kids were banned from applying.