I'm not a fan of frats either but how much do you want to bet this "actively investigating the allegations" business consists of 'could it happen, ok we're done. Guilty. Off with their heads.'

I'm not a fan of frats either but how much do you want to bet this "actively investigating the allegations" business consists of 'could it happen, ok we're done. Guilty. Off with their heads.'

Don't be so cynical. There's also an element of "how many of the frat's alumni donate to the U?"

Those Title IX coordinators and their 6 figure salaries need something to do.

Otherwise it would look like a big fat waste of money. Also, it allows them to have staff to build a little fiefdom.

My initial reaction was, "Gee, frat rats acting like swine? Who could have imagined?"

After I thought about it for a while, though, it occurred to me that a good portion of the Sigma Chi brothers must have realized this wasn't a good look. Hopefully, they're embarrassed.

But some other questions did cross my mind:

- How many "Derby Daddies" acted like jerks. Just one? Some of them? All of them? This seems important.

- Will any of the "Derby Daddies" pay a price for stepping over the line?

- The Beast article says Sigma Chi is "under investigation." How did the investigation start, and who filed the complaint?

- Sorority member Abby Bruce asked on FB, “Why do we pay money to participate in these events to be humiliated? Why have we allowed ourselves to be objectified? Women’s fraternities were started as an empowerment movement—what happened?” Is her sorority ready to tell Sigma Chi to go pound sand? If they refused to have anything to do with Sigma Chi going forward, would it do any good?

I don't know what you are talking about Amy. Clearly college life for women is heading back to the 80's. The 1880s that is. Too bad modern feminism has done such a good job of destroying the notion of chivalry because that is what these delicate specimens of the fairer sex need. But who needs chivalry when you can have the force of government or in the case college administrators protect your delicate sensibilities. And this we call progress.

I stand corrected Dee.

Do you know when things like this will stop? When women refuse to participate in it. Don't subject yourself to these assholes and you won't be humiliated.

Stormy nailed it.

If you think it's difficult changing your own behavior try and change another person, group, culture, or cult.

Hello, everyone.

I've been stuck at home all week with a debilitating case of sciatica. Thankfully, the x-ray showed that my spine is normal. Nothing looks wrong with that, so probably just a pulled muscle aggravating a nerve that sends pain to my left knee.

Of course, no one gives a rat's ass, but because of this condition, I am on Flexeril and Percocet.
And I have no tolerance whatsoever for narcotic drugs, so I am in a very drugged up state. And I am not enjoying this. What the pill-heads see in this stuff is beyond me. I would much prefer not feeling this way.

But now to the subject of college students who need fainting couches. I could tell them stories of my own college experience, and they probably wouldn't believe them. They would likely insist that there never was a time when things like this would have been tolerated on a college campus.

For instance, one day on college, I was walking up the hill from the psychology/sociology building to the main campus. And two guys were coming towards me, walking down the same path towards the psychology building.

As we drew closer to each other, I heard them spit things out like "Faggot!" "Queer!" and "Homo!" Their tone was sotto voce, more snarling than speaking, a very baleful, angry tone of voice.

I said nothing and continued walking toward them normally. As we passed one another, I walked in between the two of them. They said nothing as we passed each other.

Then after continuing for fifteen more steps or so, I looked back at them, just as they were looking back at me. "Queer!" they yelled.

It never occurred to me go to the director of student life, complain and get these two kicked out of college. I didn't know their names anyway.

But nowadays? The entire college campus would be calling for their heads! There would be gay rights groups protesting. I'd be interviewed by CNN as the "victim of a hate crime."

People are going to say some ugly, hateful, mean-spirited things to you in life. There is no avoiding that. These kids are going to enter the work force thinking that they can cordon off public property and claim it as their safe space, and believe that all they have to do is say that something is making them feel "unsafe" and that whatever is tormenting them is obligated to go away.

Guess what? I felt pretty unsafe as I was passing between those two assholes! I honesty didn't know what they were going to do. Turns out, nothing.

Had they actually put their hands on me, then yes, I probably would have gone to the director of student life, but I did not consider a one-time instance of name-calling to be an issue worth going to war over. No one seemed to feel that way. No one ever suggested that I needed to involve the administration, because this was a minor incident.

And now that I think about it, I don't think that students should bring issues like this to the administration. Students should just tell their friends about this, let the word circulate, and let the social stigmatization do the rest.

In my case, with homosexuality being far more accepted now than I was when I went to college, these two losers would find out that the rest of the world thinks that what they did was totally not cool.

Is it possible the women *were* making their own decisions, and they remained because they were having fun? Who says Abby Michelle Bruce speaks for them all?

Hope you get better soon Patrick.