The answers to these questions are depressingly easy to surmise:
If this was a “drive by” as the Rector said, then why is the Frat still suspended? What is being reformed? Why is the victim being blamed?
— Aaron Gardner (@Aaron_RS) December 19, 2014
In order:
- Because the current university administration system largely hates the traditional Greek system.
- Nothing. Nothing is being reformed. Or even ‘reformed.’
- Because it’s permissible to blame fraternities and sororities. The best victims are the ones who actually should share in some of the blame; it’s so trivially easy to make them take the full load of responsibility.
Sorry to have to tell you fols all of that.
I’m wondering the school could be sued over this.
Yes, but the university has pet lawyers and deep pockets from which to pay them during loooooong drawn-out litigation. And then any award would be dependent on the amount of “harm” the aggrieved parties could demonstrate that the university administration inflicted upon them.
Or the frats and sororities could wait for the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights to go after the university for Title IX violations. Yeah, right.
Instead, the Greek frats and sororities should contact their alumni and tell them to refrain from donating anything to UVA until Sullivan is kicked out … and maybe until a few Grievance Studies departments are de-funded, too.
Nothing wrong with all of the above. Once suit was filed, the discovery could be interesting. And the opportunity to issue press releases that keeps both UVa and the risk of being charged with being-male-on-campus in the public eye could push donations down.