Greek Life Situation At RPI

kalons
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:58:25 +0000

RPI President Shirley Jackson announced the creation of a Greek Life Task Force in an email dated June 8, citing recent events of alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and hazing. Vice-president of student life, Le Norman Strong, would investigate to “enact a comprehensive culture change.”

in my opinion, this is the school reacting accordingly. instead of being angered at the university, i would be angered at the fraternities and/or sororities who have pushed the administration so far as to suspend all greek life because of their specific actions. the problems with those specific fraternities and/or sororities need to be dealt with by the entire greek community itself. when that’s done, that’s where this should come into place…

“If anything, they should look at it by a case by case basis and basically have a running tally per house,” suggested Miner.

also, this is literally stated in an excerpt from the letter shown in the video…

I am appointing a Greek Life Task Force, led by Le Norman Strong, Interim Vice President for Student Life, to access the system, and work with the community to identify what is necessary to enact a long-term, sustainable, and comprehensive culture change to preserve the positive aspects of the Greek system.

this does not sound unreasonable in the slightest.