Students staged a sit-in at the Phi Psi house amid outrage over leaked documents that contain derogatory comments about women, minorities, and the LGBTQ community.
— released the redacted internal letters allegedly written between 2012 and 2016 by then–Phi Psi fraternity members. The publications say the documents were anonymously leaked.the Phoenix reportedThe Phi Kappa Psi fraternity headquarters said that the Swarthmore College Phi Psi fraternity has no affiliation with their organization but that it is"shocked by their actions."
"In contrast, the membership of Phi Kappa Psi is diverse, and our policies have never restricted ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or physical ability," Phi Kappa Psi said in a statement.students who demanded the school shut down Phi Psi and its only other fraternity, Delta UpsilonOver the weekend, students staged a sit-in inside and outside the Phi Psi house that continued into Monday.
Swarthmore freshman, Amal Haddad, 18, is among the roughly 70 student protesters who were at the Phi Psi house Monday. "We have no plans to leave at this time until the college meets our demands," Haddad told NBC News in a phone interview from inside the college-owned building.with an acceptance rate of 11 percent. Tuition for the 2018-2019 school year costs upward of $52,000, not including room and board.
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