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Written by Emma Grosskopf<\/p>\n
On a campus as small as ours, rumors spread like the plague, and it\u2019s hard to gauge their source or their truthfulness, but one can\u2019t help but be curious about the hearsay surrounding fraternities.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an interesting relationship. You have the 20% of people on campus involved in Greek life (although sometimes it feels like 75%), the athletes and the \u201cothers\u201d. And everyone seems to care, at least a little bit, about their relationship with fraternities.<\/p>\n
We either want everyone to know that we are super tight with the brothers in a frat or we want to place as much distance between each other as possible. Either way, fraternities play a huge role in life on the RC campus.<\/p>\n
Whether we want them to or not, these groups possess inherent power over the student body.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s social climate, the issue of sexual assault hangs over the heads of every young woman on a college campus. Here at RC, where large groups of young men have power and influence over student life, it shocks me that we, as a collective, aren\u2019t talking about the issue of fraternities and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
I may be the only one here, but I\u2019m tired of feeling unsafe. I\u2019m tired of hearing stories of fraternities at other schools who spike drinks at parties or who have initiation rituals involving the terrible treatment of women and wondering if the same happens at RC.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m tired of waiting for something to happen.<\/p>\n
This school needs to stop acting like this isn\u2019t a problem, because it is. Don\u2019t stand there and say, \u201cIt\u2019s not all frats!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Show us. Show us that it isn\u2019t all fraternities. Show us that young women have the support of the institutions. Show us that we don\u2019t have anything to be afraid of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Men in fraternities: you have a platform. People on this campus care about what you guys have to say. So, SAY SOMETHING. If you are as horrified as we are about the statistics of sexual assault on college campuses, SAY SOMETHING. If you are tired of being associated with hazing or the mistreatment of women, SAY SOMETHING.<\/p>\n If you believe that college women have the right to feel safe when they go to parties, SAY SOMETHING.<\/p>\n Just say something. Speak out about an issue that now, more than ever, is relevant for college students.<\/p>\n Fraternities have power, and people will listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Emma Grosskopf On a campus as small as ours, rumors spread like the plague, and it\u2019s hard to gauge their source or their truthfulness, but one can\u2019t help but be curious about the hearsay surrounding fraternities. It\u2019s an interesting relationship. You have the 20% of people on campus involved in Greek life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}