Oct 22, 2026 · 37 min · 17 segments
The sexual assault allegations against seven Cornell fraternity members has sparked a debate about the role of Greek life on college campuses. But maybe the solution is to get rid of it, full stop?…
I want to pause on that with you because it stood out to me The way he's framing things here in the wake of these awful allegations on his campus that he's being accused of doing way too little about, the way he's framing it as a new thing that's happening here, some kind of cultural change.
I think that there have been some arguments that I think are interesting that pair the rise of – pornography and different kinds of digital culture with what is happening inside of frats, but 100% what was happening inside of frats was a problem to begin with.
This is one of the things that I wrote about in my piece because you asked, like, when did you start to become disillusioned by this? And I think that one of the main things was...
We used to call them physical plants all the time because it was so confusing to go back and forth between a Greek house and an actual house.
And it's because they had been kicked off of campus in the 90s and early 2000s for hazing.
So we had in one of our offices, we had this wall of bound volumes of every single newspaper that the paper had published since the 1700s.
But to flip through them and read through why these houses were banned was so chilling.
And I did that because when I was a student, they were both re-recognized and brought back And one of them was banned because they were circulating an internal newspaper that talked about brothers having sex with certain women, talked about that they had a peephole where they would watch this happen.
Like the things that were published in this internal newspaper were bad enough that when it was seen by the outside world, they had no choice but to ban them, to de-recognize them.
I want to pause on that with you because it stood out to me The way he's framing things here in the wake of these awful allegations on his campus that he's being accused of doing way too little about, the way he's framing it as a new thing that's happening here, some kind of cultural change.
I think that there have been some arguments that I think are interesting that pair the rise of – pornography and different kinds of digital culture with what is happening inside of frats, but 100% what was happening inside of frats was a problem to begin with.
This is one of the things that I wrote about in my piece because you asked, like, when did you start to become disillusioned by this? And I think that one of the main things was...
We used to call them physical plants all the time because it was so confusing to go back and forth between a Greek house and an actual house.
And it's because they had been kicked off of campus in the 90s and early 2000s for hazing.
So we had in one of our offices, we had this wall of bound volumes of every single newspaper that the paper had published since the 1700s.
But to flip through them and read through why these houses were banned was so chilling.
And I did that because when I was a student, they were both re-recognized and brought back And one of them was banned because they were circulating an internal newspaper that talked about brothers having sex with certain women, talked about that they had a peephole where they would watch this happen.
Like the things that were published in this internal newspaper were bad enough that when it was seen by the outside world, they had no choice but to ban them, to de-recognize them.
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