Stanford University fraternity loses housing indefinitely

[Newsjock]

Source: Palo Alto Weekly

Stanford University's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has lost its house indefinitely after a university investigation found that its members engaged in acts of intimidation and retaliation, including deterring a female student from reporting a potential Title IX concern involving the fraternity.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), whose housing privileges were suspended earlier this year following a sexual harassment investigation, will now be an unhoused fraternity, the university announced Wednesday.

An investigation conducted this spring uncovered two incidents of intimidation and retaliation that occurred within the fraternity in recent months, both relating to concerns about federal gender equity law Title IX, the university said. One incident involved intimidation and retaliatory conduct, including acts of cyberbullying directed at another student based on a false belief that the student had reported Title IX concerns about SAE, according to the university.

The investigation also found that SAE members held social events at the Campus Drive house with non-members and had alcohol in common areas of the house on several occasions in recent months. This violated sanctions the university handed down this spring following a previous investigation that found the fraternity had created a hostile environment for female students at a May 2014 event in violation of Title IX and university policy.

Read more: http://paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/05/20/stanford-university-fraternity-loses-housing-indefinitely

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Previously on DU (March 2015):

"The Ugly, Racist, Deadly History of Sigma Alpha Epsilon"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/118713156

University of Oklahoma Fraternity Closed After Video of Racist Chant
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026336169

[F4lconF16]

1. SAE is the same one who yelled at Black Lives Matter protestors

And who sang about faggots to me as I walked by--on multiple occasions. They're also the rapey fraternity up here.

Bout time these assholes got shot down nationally.

[bluestateguy]

2. They should have to go live in the school gym now

nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Who owns a frat house?

These are typically nice looking mansions, or something close to that.

Are they owned by the university? The national fraternity organization? Or the local fraternity?

If they're evicted, the university must own the property, right?



All I know about fraternities, I learned from Animal House.

[Nitram]

4. Frat housing is owned by the fraternity.

Purchased through donations from wealthy frat brothers who have graduated.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Then how does the University have the right

to decide who can or cannot live there?

It's non-university property, like any other apartment building or a house full of renter/roommates. How does a university have jurisdiction over a private "club"?

And another question, how does an all-male club like a fraternity have any legal obligation under Title IX? Isn't that for public institutions (and co-ed)?

Maybe I should have paid more attention to this stuff when I was at a university.

[yurbud]

6. Most frats are like ANIMAL HOUSE only without the humor and with rape

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. I thought frats had standards about who gets past the pledge filters

The Animal House apparently had no such standards. Hell, they might have even accepted a broke and bumbling geek like myself.

[yurbud]

8. that's true, so Animal House was actually more egalitarian than a real house.