The University of Bloomsburg permanently ended all the activity of fraternities and brotherhoods at the public institution last week and ties were also cut with national and international organizations that currently have chapters on the Pennsylvania campus.
The students obtained the news that their Greek organizations will do it will no longer be recognized by the University in an email of two sentences from President Bashar Hanna on May 13.
"Cash immediately, Bloomsburg University is finishing its Fraternity program and Sorority Life (FSL) and sports links with all national and local FSL organizations currently affiliated with college," said the mail Hanna's electronic "All students are reminded that their behavior remains subject to all applicable university policies."
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The ad did not give any explanation for the decision, and Tom McGuire, Director of Communications at the University, refused to provide one.
The decision came less than a week after Leah Burke, a second year student and a member of a brotherhood, died on May 8, causing students, students and affiliates from fraternity And brotherhood speculate about the incident, according to the inquirer of Philadelphia. But McGuire wrote in an email that a university research on her death is "is not related to Greek life." He said the university will put more information "when appropriate".
According to the researcher, a county forensic said that Burke's death "is not considered suspicious," was not "related to trauma" and that "nothing was not involved anything". The coroner is investigating whether Burke had a possible non-diagnosed medical condition, the newspaper reported.
Other student and committed fraternity, Justin King, died in September 2019 after he attended a party sponsored by a fraternity and housed by a brotherhood of women. The king's mother argued in a continuous demand that he was forced to drink "potential amounts of alcohol" by members of Greek life, the researcher reported. Kappa Sigma, the Fraternity, was removed from the campus, and the Brotherhood, Alpha Sigma Tau, was suspended, reported the newspaper.
The scan decision to eliminate fraternities and brotherhoods on campus was a long time coming. And the students said. Several organizations were suspended or initiated on campus for violating the Student Code of University and Antihizing Policy during the 20 months since the King's death. googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article");); Do you want to announce? Click here
Some students and former students praised the movement on social networks.
"About the damn time," wrote a 2020 graduate on Twitter in response to Hanna's announcement.
A representative of Delta Pi, a fraternity on campus, said organizations were told during a meeting with the director of the fraternity and the life of university sorority at the beginning of the semester that It would be "the last straw" if there was a violation of one more behavior. The representative, who did not want to be appointed, said that the official announcement of the University or Thursday was not explained, which meant the "last straw", and the little information was shared with the fraternity on why the decision was made.
"We all knew that it was going to happen," he said. "Give us a little more vision, we need a story, we need something, we can not just take this and do not say it."
Earlier this year, the University cuts with two fraternities and a Brotherhood that had been previously suspended for violating the policies of conduct, including the policy of conduct, was modeled. After the pennsylvania LAN
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