Praise for the New IFC Regulations

The Inter-Fraternity Council deserves accolades for introducing new criteria on the establishment of fraternities. The June 2005 ending of the moratorium on new single-sex Greek houses necessitated new regulations for Greek expansion. With a slew of national fraternities seeking their own chapters at Dartmouth and groups of College students lobbying for their own houses, the new benchmarks will bring standardization and objectivity to the procedure, injecting fairness into a process that has the potential to breed controversy. Last spring, under the old IFC criteria, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity failed to earn recognition from the Greek oversight committee on two separate occasions, leading to accusations about the motives and impartiality of the IFC. The introduction of the standardized requirements will help prevent decisions that could provoke similar allegations.

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