Amherst President Weighs Fraternities In Tackling Sexual Assault

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-06-07 08:54

Article here. Excerpt:

'"It is possible that in any group of male students -- sports teams, fraternities or even all-male suites -- we will find exaggerated enactments of 'masculinity,'" the board wrote. "Unless every student recognizes and understands their own behavior, this phenomenon will perpetuate itself until a ‘herd mentality’ leads to offensive acts by the members of the association."

Lynn Phillips, a communication lecturer at the nearby University of Massachusetts-Amherst, said fraternities perpetuate "the notions of masculinity set out to make men feel like they have to conquer.”'

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I was in a "frat" as they call it when I was in college. At no time did anyone tell me I had to go "conquer". If anything needed conquering, perhaps it was the ridiculous term papers that got in the way of far more important things, such as beer. =)

So anyway, "the frats" are off-campus but still "allowed" to exist. So one day, let's say they are not. Instead, they become houses lived in by a bunch of male students. What then is the college going to do? Insist that they don't all live together?

Sounds to me like most ppl quoted in this article aren't comfortable w/ men living in all-male environs together. OK, so male students must live only in co-ed housing. But that puts the female students at risk, right? The evil male students might rape them!

Men can't live w/ female students. They can't live in single-sex facilities, on- or off-campus. Heck, they can't live anywhere!!! Argghhhh!!

Anyone who doesn't see the big picture here that includes thr goal of driving men entirely out of higher ed isn't paying attention.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-06-07 23:49