Our dean put us on social probation, which means no mixers. We had a straight liquor party. TFM.
Parties.
Pledges taking up the whole sidewalk so a GDI is forced to walk on the grass. TFM.
Elitism.
Took the frathound hunting this weekend, so we tied a pledge to the front porch and made him bark at every GDI that walked by. TFM.
Hazing.
Total frat moves. According to TotalFratMove, these are the stereotypes of Greek student life.
These are the main reasons that universities shut down fraternity and sorority chapters and Greek communities as a whole. Several universities have even banned students from rushing their freshman year to try to cut out these things and encourage students to focus more on academics.
Princeton University implemented this, prohibiting freshman to affiliate with a Greek organization. The ban was the result of a recommendation by the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life.
The ban also “prohibits students in the other three classes from conducting or having responsibility on behalf of a Greek organization for any form of rush or solicitation in which freshmen are invited to participate,” said Princeton President Shirley Tilghman.
Colby College banned Greek life as a whole in 1984, saying it was “exclusionary by nature.”
Utah State University shut down two of its Greek organizations in 2008 due to a hazing incident. Sigma Nu Fraternity and Chi Omega Sorority are no longer part of the community at USU.
On Nov. 21, 2008 USU sophomore and Sigma Nu pledge Michael Starks died due to a hazing and alcohol related incident. He was kidnapped by members of Sigma Nu and Chi Omega and was taken to a house off campus. While there, he was painted blue and forced to drink alcohol. He died shortly after of alcohol poisoning, police reports said.
Since then USU has developed a zero tolerance for hazing and alcohol policy violations.
Over USU’s homecoming weekend, a 17-year-old girl was taken to the hospital by Pi Kappa Alpha members after consuming enough alcohol to have a blood alcohol content of .340. Starks died at a blood alcohol content of .373.
Two weeks ago the Pike’s were placed on suspension and were disbanded from USU for alcohol policy violations.
Two members were arrested and charged with providing alcohol to a minor.
“There were a lot of incidents with Pike leading up to this,” USU Alcohol Specialist Ryan Barfuss said. “We had people get in trouble with housing who drank at Pike. That’s against their alcohol policy and Utah State’s.”
“I actually think that Pike was doing their best with the situation. It was a wrong place wrong time kind of thing,” sophomore Caitlyn Lewis said.
This is the first alcohol-related issue the USU Greek community has had in the three years since Starks’ death.
Non-Greeks are often derogatorily referred to as “god damn independents” or GDI’s by fraternity and sorority members. “Geed” is also commonly used, as a shorter, easier, pronunciation of GDI.
“I can see how it could be an elitist thing, but I’m good friends with a lot of the Greeks and it makes me feel welcome when they call me a geed. They call me Queen Geed, so it’s fine,” Tiffany Bushman, sophomore, said. “I feel like it’s a term out of love. If they called me a GDI, I would feel bad about it, and I would feel like they were looking down on me.”
“There definitely is a difference between calling someone a GDI and calling them a geed. A GDI is someone who openly bashes the Greek system, while a geed is just someone who isn’t Greek,” USU sophomore Kacie de Jong said.
The alcohol issues and the name calling that are apparent at USU’s campus don’t do anything to defy the negative stereotypes shown on TotalFratMove.
“As an Alpha Chi, I believe I believe that living our ritual will help us grow and become better leaders,” Lewis said. “That’s how we should be, even though TFM is harmless humor.”
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Parties.
Pledges taking up the whole sidewalk so a GDI is forced to walk on the grass. TFM.
Elitism.
Took the frathound hunting this weekend, so we tied a pledge to the front porch and made him bark at every GDI that walked by. TFM.
Hazing.
Total frat moves. According to TotalFratMove, these are the stereotypes of Greek student life.
These are the main reasons that universities shut down fraternity and sorority chapters and Greek communities as a whole. Several universities have even banned students from rushing their freshman year to try to cut out these things and encourage students to focus more on academics.
Princeton University implemented this, prohibiting freshman to affiliate with a Greek organization. The ban was the result of a recommendation by the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life.
The ban also “prohibits students in the other three classes from conducting or having responsibility on behalf of a Greek organization for any form of rush or solicitation in which freshmen are invited to participate,” said Princeton President Shirley Tilghman.
Colby College banned Greek life as a whole in 1984, saying it was “exclusionary by nature.”
Utah State University shut down two of its Greek organizations in 2008 due to a hazing incident. Sigma Nu Fraternity and Chi Omega Sorority are no longer part of the community at USU.
On Nov. 21, 2008 USU sophomore and Sigma Nu pledge Michael Starks died due to a hazing and alcohol related incident. He was kidnapped by members of Sigma Nu and Chi Omega and was taken to a house off campus. While there, he was painted blue and forced to drink alcohol. He died shortly after of alcohol poisoning, police reports said.
Since then USU has developed a zero tolerance for hazing and alcohol policy violations.
Over USU’s homecoming weekend, a 17-year-old girl was taken to the hospital by Pi Kappa Alpha members after consuming enough alcohol to have a blood alcohol content of .340. Starks died at a blood alcohol content of .373.
Two weeks ago the Pike’s were placed on suspension and were disbanded from USU for alcohol policy violations.
Two members were arrested and charged with providing alcohol to a minor.
“There were a lot of incidents with Pike leading up to this,” USU Alcohol Specialist Ryan Barfuss said. “We had people get in trouble with housing who drank at Pike. That’s against their alcohol policy and Utah State’s.”
“I actually think that Pike was doing their best with the situation. It was a wrong place wrong time kind of thing,” sophomore Caitlyn Lewis said.
This is the first alcohol-related issue the USU Greek community has had in the three years since Starks’ death.
Non-Greeks are often derogatorily referred to as “god damn independents” or GDI’s by fraternity and sorority members. “Geed” is also commonly used, as a shorter, easier, pronunciation of GDI.
“I can see how it could be an elitist thing, but I’m good friends with a lot of the Greeks and it makes me feel welcome when they call me a geed. They call me Queen Geed, so it’s fine,” Tiffany Bushman, sophomore, said. “I feel like it’s a term out of love. If they called me a GDI, I would feel bad about it, and I would feel like they were looking down on me.”
“There definitely is a difference between calling someone a GDI and calling them a geed. A GDI is someone who openly bashes the Greek system, while a geed is just someone who isn’t Greek,” USU sophomore Kacie de Jong said.
The alcohol issues and the name calling that are apparent at USU’s campus don’t do anything to defy the negative stereotypes shown on TotalFratMove.
“As an Alpha Chi, I believe I believe that living our ritual will help us grow and become better leaders,” Lewis said. “That’s how we should be, even though TFM is harmless humor.”
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