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Tag: fraternities/sororities

Student Life

Black undergrad sorority once again on campus at Univ. of Minn.

Alex Friedrich May 2, 2011, 11:04 AM May 2, 2011
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“Without [black sororities on campus,] a part of our culture was missing.” — Tahirah Whitelaw on why it’s important that Zeta Phi Beta recently took in seven members at the University of Minnesota — the first time a black undergraduate sorority has been on campus in almost a decade. Read the full Minnesota Daily article Read more →

Student Life

More details on the U of Minnesota's Greek party police

Alex Friedrich November 29, 2010, 2:02 PM Nov 29, 2010
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Here’s an update to the story of the University of Minnesota Greek system ending its alcohol ban and replacing it with a new monitoring and enforcement system. The Minnesota Daily calls next spring’s new system, named Arkeo, the “Greek party police”: Arkeo is meant to do more than prevent sexual assault, said Chad Ellsworth, coordinator Read more →

Schools · Student Life

U-Minnesota frat drinking ban ends

Alex Friedrich November 17, 2010, 1:47 PM Nov 17, 2010
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The Minnesota Daily reports that the Interfraternity Council at the University of Minnesota has ended its ban on alcohol — but replaced it with a new system. Council president Martin Chorzempa told the Daily: “It’s not like we just said, ‘Ok, we’re going to lift it. It’s gone now.’ The moratorium has been replaced now Read more →

Student Life

How safe do Minnesotans feel at frat parties?

Alex Friedrich November 4, 2010, 10:01 AM Nov 4, 2010
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In light of this fall’s sexual assault cases at three University of Minnesota fraternities, I recently I asked members of our Public Insight Network about how safe they felt at fraternity parties — and how comfortable they would be if a young family member attended. It’s not a scientific survey, of course. But here’s the Read more →

Schools · Student Life

What one Winona State sorority member has to say about frat guys

Alex Friedrich October 29, 2010, 1:32 PM Oct 29, 2010
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On the College Candy Web site is an article, Greek Speak: Frat Guys, An Insider’s Perspective, that asks sorority women for their take on fraternity men. Here’s the one Minnesota opinion in the piece: Gabby: Phi Theta Chi, Winona State University My boyfriend is Greek and he is a diamond in the rough, to be Read more →

Student Life

Chalk up another one to the Dekes

Alex Friedrich October 22, 2010, 9:49 AM Oct 22, 2010
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Young pledges hoping to join a University of Alberta fraternity were made to eat their own vomit, locked in a plywood box and deprived of sleep. Put another helping of trouble on the plate of Delta Kappa Epsilon, which is in the news nationally for both its Yale chapter, which chanted vulgarities about women, and Read more →

Schools · Student Life

U-Minnesota's Chi Psi to get house dad

Alex Friedrich October 19, 2010, 3:36 PM Oct 19, 2010
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If Chi Psi needs a firm hand, I wonder whether it’s about to get it. Its University of Minnesota chapter, which is on probation for alcohol problems and made the news recently for an alleged sexual assault (recently dropped for lack of evidence), has taken on a live-in house dad, the Minnesota Daily reports. Starting Read more →

Student Life

Poll: How safe are fraternity parties?

Alex Friedrich October 8, 2010, 1:42 PM Oct 8, 2010
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MPR reporter Tim Post and I have covered the three recent sexual assault cases at the University of Minnesota fairly heavily, and now I’d like to hear from you: Just how safe do you –or people you know — feel at fraternity parties? Is the issue being overblown — or underreported? Please click the link Read more →

Student Life

Police: No charges to be filed in Chi Psi case

Alex Friedrich October 6, 2010, 3:46 PM Oct 6, 2010
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Police have decided not to file charges in the sexual assault case involving Chi Psi fraternity at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said. “We’ve spoken with everyone we could find, both the people who were interested parties and those who were not, both the young man involved and the young lady Read more →

Student Life

Why Tommie Greeks want help

Alex Friedrich October 6, 2010, 2:04 PM Oct 6, 2010
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If you’re unsure whether lack of resources can stifle a fraternity — or at least its motivation — listen to what University of St. Thomas sophomore Anthony Guidotti (a Sigma Tau Omega officer) tells the TommieMedia student news service about the campus’ tiny Greek community: “We’re really not looking for funding from the university, but Read more →

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