The following release is from Phi Kappa Psi: Phi Kappa Psi became the first fraternity to be reinstated after it agreed to new rules, including some that govern how alcohol is distributed at parties. The article led to a temporary suspension of fraternity and sorority social activities. Pleasants says the investigation continues. He says it does not mean that a sexual assault did not occur possibly elsewhere. Charlottesville Police Captain Gary Pleasants says this latest development means police were not able to confirm that a rape occurred at the house. In a statement released Monday by the fraternity, Charlottesville Police told the University their investigation has not revealed any substantive basis to confirm the allegation that Jackie was sexually assaulted at the fraternity house. The article detailed a description by a student called “Jackie” and described what the magazine said was a culture of sexual violence at the University. That after Charlottesville Police could not confirm the allegation that a gang rape had occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. The group ended the protest after meeting with school leaders and, a week later, the dean of students announced her resignation.The UVA fraternity at the center of the Rolling Stone article has been reinstated. The same group that organized this year’s protest, Organizing for Survivors, staged a nine-day sit-in at Swarthmore’s administration building last year, demanding new sexual-assault reporting procedures and that the fraternities be banned from campus.
Tuesday night’s announcements punctuate years of simmering tensions between Greek life and the Swarthmore student body.
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Still, the community has “much healing” to do, she wrote, condemning “unsubstantiated attacks” and “social media posts by members of our community that target individual students or make gross generalizations about student groups.”Īmal Haddad, a freshman and an organizer of the sit-in, said Smith’s message was “insulting and not enough.” She said the group is deciding how to bring its continued concerns to the administration. That panel is expected to issue recommendations to Smith on Friday. She wrote that an external investigator will still examine the documents to ensure that is the case and said the work of a task force convened to examine Greek life on campus will continue. In a message to the campus community Wednesday, college President Valerie Smith wrote that while the documents “provide a vivid account of deeply disturbing, unacceptable behaviors and practices,” the school has “no evidence that any current student participated in the behaviors documented in those materials.” Swarthmore Borough Police were present at the sit-in, but no arrests were made. The Phi Psi house served as more of a clubhouse than a residence - just one student lived in the building. The “meeting minutes” chronicled Phi Psi parties, made jokes about date rape drugs and other illegal drug use, and included photos of women in the fraternity house. Tuesday that it “unanimously decided that disbanding our fraternity is in the best interest of the Swarthmore community.Ībout two weeks ago, the Phoenix, the independent campus newspaper, and Voices, a left-leaning alternative publication with an activist bent, released a trove of redacted, internal fraternity documents from 2012 to 2016 that they say were anonymously leaked.
The fraternity posted on Facebook at 9 p.m. The first to announce it was disbanding was Delta Upsilon, which was alleged in the leaked documents, supposedly written by a former Phi Psi member who has not been identified, to have a “rape tunnel” and a “rape attic.” The Inquirer has not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents, redacted versions of which were published by two campus publications. They will continue to occupy the Phi Psi fraternity as part of a sit-in that started Saturday until Swarthmore officials commit to reallocating the houses to groups representing marginalized communities targeted in the fraternity’s “meeting minutes.” The move was cheered by campus activists, although they say that’s not enough. Swarthmore College’s two remaining fraternities announced late Tuesday they will disband amid outrage over leaked internal documents from one of the groups that suggested members made offensive comments about women and minorities and joked about sexual assault.
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