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Joining Fraternities and Sororities Cheap Sports Jerseys , Part II- The Recent Truths (2015) Family Articles | May 15, 2015

A few weeks ago I published an article giving advice on making the decision to join or not to join a fraternity or sorority. We have had some national headlines since then about incidents involving these groups, headlines about rapes, racial slurs, and drinking, that shape our consciousness in making our decisions to join or not.?



All parents believe that their son or daughter would never be involved in making a bad choice that would make them and their actions the subject of national headlines. But it happens and once the damage is done Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , we ask ourselves what we could have done to prevent this from ever happening. I have to ask, did you talk to your son or daughter before they landed at college, or at the very least before they joined that campus social group? Talk of issues that these groups continuously find themselves in the middle of? Well maybe not enough, life is busy, preparing for college is hard, or there are only a few incidents each year Cheap Jerseys Wholesale , the chance percentage of my son or daughter being involved is quite low, these are some of the answers I imagine. All true, but common sense is best when used as the bases of all decisions, and so often our actions are a combination of steps which build into a crescendo where the worst last minute choices become the quickest made, with the least amount of thought given to the answers. As we review the last few months of campus news, parents take note on subjects your teenagers should be aware of Cheap Jerseys From China , that happened because someone like them didn’t think it would happen to them, but it did.


One of the biggest bombshells that happened since I wrote my article, was the deflation of the Playboy November 2014 article on the alleged rape in a fraternity house on the campus of the University of Virginia, which had supposedly happened in 2012. Very bad journalism was exampled by only interviewing the victim, and not any collaborating witnesses (like her friends who she had spoken to after the incident), caused this retraction of this story by Playboy. But on the initial positive side Cheap Jerseys China , this story had blown to national headlines causing the university to exam its’ history. In which it became public knowledge that since 1998, 183 students were expelled for honor code violations like cheating on exams, but no one had been expelled for sexual assault. This case had raised awareness but now it might be harder to believe the next victim who comes forward. The University of Virginia historically does not respond well to victims of sexual assault. In fact last May (2012), the US Department of Education had released a list of 55 colleges and Universities under investigation over possible violations in their handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints. By October that list had grown to 86 schools.


Racial slurs are a constant problem on college campuses, as anyone can find with a simple internet search. The story hit big when some Oklahoma University fraternity members where caught in a video on a bus singing a racial song mentioning lynching. Universities are taking a no tolerance policy suspending students and dissolving fraternities, but that is heavily contingent on the strength of the evidence. Some of the latest cases (2015- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education) Cheap Jerseys , involve the University of South Carolina; State University of New York- Purchase; Duke; University of Washington; American University; Connecticut College; Lincoln University; University of Alabama; Wheaton College; and Bucknell University. Some incidents are just students putting on skits that represent KKK members; or graffiti found on campus, with slurs and swastikas; or rope tied in nooses, left in public view. Some are similar to my experience on campus 40 years ago, calls shouted out from an open window in a dorm building to anyone walking by. We all have to be onboard that racial slurs hurt, they reflect an uglier time when m