AMERICAN FRATERNITY: PSI KAPPA PSI AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

It should not particularly surprise you that I utterly despise Greek Culture. Meaning fraternities and sororities at universities in the United States, not actually anything related to what goes on in Greece.
When I lived in Berkeley I saw enough misbehaviour to be repulsed, and other than the movie Animal House, there has been not a thing that convinces me of any redeeming features of the system.

Greek Culture inculcates a spirit of depravity and sadism in its members. No man in his right mind joins a fraternity, women who join sororities do not remain whole.
In a way, it's as repulsive and damaging an institution as the Republican Party and the Freemasons. Except with a greater degree of psychosis.

Okay, maybe not the Freemasons. That might be an exaggeration.
Despite many outright bastards in their ranks.
Captains of industry.


At the University of Virginia, esteemed fraternity Psi Kappa Psi seems to have been the campus centre for gang-rape, sexual violence, and all round disgusting behaviour. But it's obviously not all their fault. The university itself chose to down-play what went on, attempted to defuse reaction and confound investigation, and generally emasculate any possible repercussion or consequence for the perpetrators.

This is not unusual on many campi. American higher education leaves a lot to be desired. Both socially and culturally.


Okay, enough foaming at the mouth. Let's mention specifics.

From a BBC article:

---In 2013 Jackie reported her rape to the head of the school's misconduct board, Nicole Eramo. ---

---Jackie was presented with the choice of going to the police, beginning a formal complaint or having a mediated session where she could confront her alleged attackers. ---

Choices, choices!
A carefully staged confrontation mediated session, where the victim will be shouted down by up to half a dozen brutes who all deny the allegation and understand that maintaining their own reputations depends upon making the woman out to be a godless drunken slut, is not a choice that should be offered. And certainly not by an institution that survives by sucking students dry of funds, then bleeding alumni of further cash.
Please remember that many fraternity members have wealthy families who pay handsomely to have their sons "educated", and will certainly kick up a fuss if future employability is jeopardized. There are also past fraternity brothers who will rally round the standard and pull strings, lest their own behaviour while at college suddenly be called into question.
Other fraternities and sororities will likewise grasp the benefits of obscuring the issue.
Hence they all have an interest in ruining the woman.

Rape isn't rape if well-heeled and influential people can prevent it ever being successfully prosecuted.


In one year:

38 cases of rape.

14 students found guilty.

Not a single expulsion. Not one.


Further from that article:

---"At UVA, rapes are kept quiet, both by students - who brush off sexual assaults as regrettable but inevitable casualties of their cherished party culture - and by an administration that critics say is less concerned with protecting students than it is with protecting its own reputation from scandal," Erdely writes. ---

And:

---The University of Virginia is one of 86 schools currently under investigation by the Obama administration's Department of Education for their handling of sexual-assault-related complaints. ---


Naturally I consider members of fraternities to generally be dubious types of low morals and depraved habits, compulsive liars convinced of their own entitlement, and dangers to the public. There is very little to indicate otherwise, and no one in their right mind should trust fraternity members around their friends and kin folk.

Yes, a generalization.
Prove it wrong.





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