sparked ongoing discussions of abolishing or reforming Greek life at Northwestern. The Daily spoke to a member of the Abolish Greek Life movement about the group’s perspective on reform, accountability and the future of Greek life on campus. The student chose to remain anonymous due to threats of harassment.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
The Daily: How has the Abolish NU Greek Life movement been communicating and collaborating with the Interfraternity Council and/or Panhellenic Association?
Abolish NU Greek Life: It’s mostly been informative contact with PHA, to understand how groups disband, what recruitment might look like and things like that. We actually just had a meeting with the president of IFC, talking about changes that he was thinking of implementing, and getting our ideas out there. We have very different end goals, but they definitely overlap in some areas. We’re really excited to see if IFC will be able to make those changes and how
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A bus passes in front of Strong Hall, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
All of the members of five fraternities at the University of Kansas have been banned from campus for 10 days after recent social activities “that put our community’s health at risk,” the university’s vice provost for student affairs said Friday.
The bans affect all of the members of the KU chapters of Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon, KU spokesperson Erinn Barcomb-Peterson confirmed to the Journal-World on Friday. She said the fraternity members would be prohibited from entering any “property, buildings, or other facilities of the University of Kansas, excluding Watkins Health Center.”
, discussions of abolishing or reforming Greek life have continued on campus. The Daily spoke to Interfraternity Council
President and Weinberg junior Nick Papandreou about his perspective on recruitment, parties and the future of Greek life on campus.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
The Daily: IFC chose to continue with formal recruitment this year. How has it changed this year because of COVID-19 and the Abolish Greek Life movement?
Papandreou: We did expect lower numbers and we do still expect fewer people to rush. The chapters are making conscious decisions in terms of who they’re recruiting, and we’ve kind of formed our recruitment process for this quarter to kind of facilitate that.