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  • We must also burn deep into the consciousness of youth in some fashion that shall be through our modern mechanisms as effective as were the old "Fraternities" of primitive life, and as are still the outworn but persistent forms of military discipline, that idea of subordination of private whim to public well-being which lies at the base of all true and ordered social advance.

    The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

  • "You think the Fraternities are a solid, monolithic, organization; everybody agreed on aims and means, and working together in harmony?

    Null-ABC H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Twenty years separates my college experience and that of Liz Seccuro's utterly horrific and inexcusable gang rape at the University of Virginia "Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good," Review, April 23.

    Banning Fraternities Is a Bad Idea 2011

  • Fraternities certainly have every right to punish their own members for breaking their rules or otherwise acting ungentlemanly.

    Greg Lukianoff: Fraternities: Disastrous for Free Speech on Campus? Greg Lukianoff 2011

  • Fraternities, however, aren't responsible for those changes, and banning them won't restore values of honesty and decency in our society, or protect young women.

    Banning Fraternities Is a Bad Idea 2011

  • Fraternities, on the other hand, sometimes get in trouble for incidents like dressing in blackface and Klan robes for a Halloween party, as Tau Kappa Epsilon at the University of Louisville did in 2001.

    Greg Lukianoff: Fraternities: Disastrous for Free Speech on Campus? Greg Lukianoff 2011

  • This will likely come as a surprise to no one: Fraternities consistently produce some of the least sympathetic cases for campus free speech advocates.

    Greg Lukianoff: Fraternities: Disastrous for Free Speech on Campus? Greg Lukianoff 2011

  • This will likely come as a surprise to no one: Fraternities consistently produce some of the least sympathetic cases for campus free speech advocates.

    Greg Lukianoff: Fraternities: Disastrous for Free Speech on Campus? Greg Lukianoff 2011

  • Fraternities, on the other hand, sometimes get in trouble for incidents like dressing in blackface and Klan robes for a Halloween party, as Tau Kappa Epsilon at the University of Louisville did in 2001.

    Greg Lukianoff: Fraternities: Disastrous for Free Speech on Campus? Greg Lukianoff 2011

  • Fraternities certainly have every right to punish their own members for breaking their rules or otherwise acting ungentlemanly.

    Greg Lukianoff: Fraternities: Disastrous for Free Speech on Campus? Greg Lukianoff 2011

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