all frat social activities halted at USC amid more drugging reports

[Demovictory9]

USC Fraternity Activity Halted Amid More Drugging Reports Involving More Frats


The Interfraternity Council has called a halt to all social activities at USC fraternities Saturday after the Department of Public Safety announced it received not only allegations of sexual abuse and drugs being slipped into drinks during parties at Sigma Nu fraternity, where chapter President Ryan Schiffilea has been confirmed by police as a sexual assault suspect, but also at other fraternities.

“Ryan Schiffilea is a suspect but has not been arrested. This is an ongoing investigation,'” Los Angeles Police Department Officer Rosario Cervantes told City News Service.


DPS announced Saturday that it will enforce the Interfraternity Council's Safety Notification, which prohibits fraternities from hosting on-campus social activities indefinitely.

“The university has also taken steps to increase security and enhanced supervision on and around 28th Street,” DPS said.

The campus police department's Oct. 20 Daily Incident Log lists five reports dating back to Sept. 27 of students claiming to have been slipped a mickey at parties at the Sigma Nu house, 660 W. 28th St., and another report of a student being drugged at a party at an unknown location. It also lists a report of a sexual assault at the Sigma Nu frat house.

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[Scrivener7]

1. I guess the 6 rapes and attempted rapes at the one party were not enough for them to shut it down.

Those six women who attended a single party and whose lives will never be the same again were not enough.

It took reports of the same thing happening at other houses for the school to actually take appropriate action.

Because, you know. It was only six.

[thucythucy]

3. I wonder how many campus administators are members

or alums of fraternities.

It's 2021, and so many of us are still into the "boys will be boys" mentality that ignores or minimizes sexual predation.

[malaise]

4. Sickening

We have serious problems for women when the enforcers of the law believe boys will be boys

[thucythucy]

2. This may well generate some heated responses

but I think fraternities ought not to be a part of college life. They certainly shouldn't be recognized by college or university administrations.

I know, I know... they do "charitable work" they are an opportunity to social network etc.

But the charitable work is just a fig leaf for all the rapey stuff that has gone on forever, and the social networking is just another way people on the margins get excluded in the perks that the inside crowd take for granted.

Time and time again it's been shown that there's no real way to regulate these groups so that they don't endanger women on campus. And as with corrupt cops, the "bad apples"--no matter how few--are generally tolerated and even protected by the others.

If students want to associate off campus no one can stop them. But for fraternities to be sanctioned college organizations gives them a legitimacy, a presence, and power on campus they simply don't merit and can't seem to stop abusing.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Works For Me!

I was never remotely tempted to join a frat.
In my first couple weeks at school, most of the guys I knew that were already in frats (a year or 2 ahead of me) seemed pretty unappealing.
When you find one pleasant guy for every 6 or 7 you meet, the notion of joining was a non starter.
Besides, I lived off campus.
The school I went to allowed frats to have 2 nonmembers each on their intramural basketball teams. I got asked by 6-8 frats each year, and I picked the team with the least number of objectionable guys in the frat.
That's not much of an endorsement.
Admittedly, I'm not a joiner, but I also think at 95+% of schools, the social network thing is overrated. I personally know not one person who had success in life where that success was facilitated by membership in a fraternity or sorority.