11 News at 10 am Susan here as soon as six fraternities are cutting ties with us see, it’s happening amid a crackdown on parties at the university, but the organization’s denied that’s why they did it. It’s our top story tonight. Fox Elevons Bob DeCastro is live at USC with how
The university is responding, Bob. Good evening, Susan. Yeah, and this is a big deal for us. See, especially when it comes to student life in the student experience, some 17% of students join a fraternity or a sorority here and rush starts next week. Quiet evening on USCs fraternity
Row, which next week will be full of students looking to be a part of Greek life. But this year a different choice. Six fraternities have formally cut ties from the university, pushing back against strict party rules instituted last year amid allegations of sexual assaults and drugging at parties . Fraternity members we spoke
With did not want to talk on camera. But said they felt they had been unfairly singled out at University Village. Other returning students had this reaction. I think, since the fraternities are recruiting students in the university, they should abide by the passes of the university. In an instagram post. Administrators strongly
Urged students not to join the independent groups saying in part, we are disappointed that some USC fraternities are following an unfortunate national trend by Disaffiliated from the university against our strong recommendations. This decision seems to be driven by the desire to eliminate university oversight of their operations and goes against 130
Years of tradition. The fraternities that sever ties will not have to abide by U. S s new safety measures at frat parties, including security guards scanning for fake IEDs, a band of pegs and restricting rush for first year students. It’s almost as if by instead of responding to the new
Regulations and abiding by them instead, just Ah, Recusing themselves in removing themselves from the university. It almost seems like Yeah tacit admission that those things were occurring and that they don’t want to. Fix those issues. By leaving us. See, officials say fraternities will lose the right to use the USC logo, access the
Greek life portal and participate in campus activities . If you want to continue to, you know, Participate in those things and they have their you know that’s the right to do so. And there is talk here on the USC campus that those six fraternities that essentially seceded from USC will start its
Own independent Interfraternity Council. USC stresses that those fraternities cannot officially participate in any on campus activities. But they say that individual students can individually participate, They say, after all, they are still students. That’s the latest from USC campus. Bobby Castro. Susan back to you, Bob. Thank you very
Much, but I have this question for you. Did you find anyone at all That said, Yeah, it’s a good idea. Let’s secede from the university. You know, none of this. None of the students that I talked to that were members of fraternities thought that it was a good idea to secede from the
University. Most of them thought that they were independent that they have measures in place in their own fraternities that Guarded and protected against those, you know things that might have been the Feria Swindon those fraternity parties so they wished that they could stay as part of it, but it looks
Like they will be, uh, seceding from the from USC, and you were suggesting this is a national trend that there are other fraternities that have done something similar to correct. Absolutely In fact, many universities across the country are Doing something similar, and many fraternities at different universities are also seceding
From their individual campuses as well. So this is something that does appear to be somewhat of a national trend, and it does remain to be seen by the way. Whether or not other fraternities on campus will still follow suit. And that’s certainly is ability. Alright
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