“We cannot in good conscience be members of an organization with such a painful history.”
After days of protests over leaked documents containing offensive jokes and descriptions about sexual encounters, Swarthmore College fraternities Phi Kappa Psi and Delta Upsilon's chapters have decided to disband.
On Wednesday, Swarthmore College president Valerie Smith announced in a campus-wide message that Phi Kappa Psi, commonly called Phi Psi, and Delta Upsilon decided to disband and relinquish their houses. The announcement came days after Smith suspended all fraternity activity pending the outcome of an investigation into disturbing documents dated from 2013 to 2016.
The documents, as published by Voices, a student-run publication at Swarthmore, detail various sexual encounters, including ones that were photographed and filmed possibly without consent. Also included in the documents were alleged conversations about women and minority groups that contained offensive language.
After the documents were leaked, students staged a multiday sit-in at Phi Psi to urge the university to terminate leases with the fraternities.
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