Strictly Business

The current cause-celebre in the ongoing debate about the roles of fraternities and sororities on our campus is the eviction of Alpha Xi Delta from the physical plant it has rented from Beta Theta Pi for the last ten years. As this incident includes many of the issues that are discussed whenever the pros and cons of the Greek system are debated, I feel that a fair amount of conflation is occurring. I would like to speak directly to the AZD-Beta issue, however, instead of injecting it with many of the other issues surrounding the Greek system. All talk of gendered spaces aside, at its heart, the AZD-Beta dispute is a legal contract matter: Beta leased its physical plant to AZD. I have no personal knowledge of this lease, but I assume that in this lease there are conditions under which Beta can renew it or evict AZD from the house. If Beta breached the contract, AZD should sue Beta.