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The Update | November 12, 2019
Industry Update Provided by NPC
U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) and Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) are leading a bill that would require colleges and universities to report hazing that involved serious injury or risk of injury to a student to law enforcement within 72 hours, according to ABC 4. It would also require the institutions to post on their websites any organization that has been disciplined for hazing. A handful of states have passed similar requirements, but lawmakers, families and even the fraternities and sororities themselves believe this federal solution is the best fix. The North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) and the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) CEOs stated, “We must bring more transparency, accountability and improved safety to all student organizations on campuses nationwide.”
Sigma Phi Epsilon announced on Thursday it had severed ties with NIC, accusing the organization of not doing enough to curb alcohol abuse and hazing according to the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. In a response to the departure, NIC stated, “NIC fraternities continue to lead in efforts to protect students by enforcing stricter health and safety guidelines than applied to non-fraternity students. In addition, NIC work continues as we shift from pilot programs to full implementation of first-ever industry-wide health and safety guidelines and the removal of hard alcohol from chapter houses and events.”
Following a Columbus Dispatch investigation that detailed the severe hazing and death of pledge Collin Wiant at the Sigma Pi Fraternity at Ohio University, Gov. Mike DeWine is calling for lawmakers to stiffen the state’s hazing penalties from minor misdemeanors to felonies. The governor said any anti-hazing legislation should not only increase the penalty, but also expand the actual legal language of the hazing statute to give prosecutors more leeway to charge someone with a hazing crime, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
San Diego State University suspended 14 fraternities associated with its Interfraternity Council (IFC) Friday following an incident at a fraternity event earlier in the week that led to the death of a student, according to CBS News. The San Diego Union-Tribune said the student is alleged to have attended a Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity event on Wednesday before being taken to a hospital the next morning.
Grand Council News
At its Friday, Nov. 8, meeting Grand Council took the following actions:
- Considered membership invitations to two alumnae initiate candidates;
- Considered an appeal to a membership termination;
- Approved Upsilon/Minnesota Chapter’s request to move to the Fraternity Housing Corporation; and
- Amended Fraternity Bylaws, Article IV, Section 7, B & F as follows.
B. Room Licenses
Where the chapter facility is owned or leased by the chapter facility corporation, each member who will live in the facility during the following school year shall sign a room license and deposit not less than one (1) month's rent with the chapter or the Fraternity Housing Corporation. Such licenses shall be signed, and the deposits made prior to the end of the spring term
F. Chapter-Corporation Agreement
An annual chapter-corporation agreement shall be signed no later than December 1 of each year by the chief executive officer of the college chapter, the advisory board chairman, and the president of the facility corporation or FHC Executive Director.
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