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The Tragedy Of The Sexual Assault Discussion On Campus
Recently Student Life published a front-page article describing a new study by a team of Wash U students about the prevalence of sexual assault at Wash U’s fraternities, specifically as inflicted upon Wash U sorority members. Ignoring that this was not a comprehensive study it completely ignored sexual assault toward non-sorority female students, men or…
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Hazing: The Dark Side of Indoctrination
Dr. James Arnold studied the dynamics and inner-structures of fraternities on four separate college campuses in the Midwest between 1991 and 1995. In an interview, Arnold asked a fraternity member who was at the time a pledge-educator about his views on hazing. The young man responded, “Obviously, anytime you want to indoctrinate somebody, the way…
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APO and BSA: Same Roots, Different Policies
BY PAUL BIGG for ALPHA PHI OMEGA Alpha Phi Omega (APO), the co-ed National Service Fraternity, was founded in 1925. One of the Fraternity’s purposes is to bring college students together in fellowship derived from the Scout Law and Oath of the Boy Scouts of America. Historically, Alpha Phi Omega and the Boy Scouts of…
